Extreme Perception and Animal Intelligence
In the excerpt from, Extreme Perception and Animal Intelligent, authors
Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson are concerned how psychologists affirm that
people who believe animals are intelligent are deluding themselves. The authors
state that many animals have extreme perception; like dogs that are very good sniffing
out contraband, drugs or detect explosives in place where human can’t. That’s
mean dog are using advanced perceptual abilities to solve a problem, no dogs
was born knowing how to solve or how they can act in a certain problem. When the
ability is part of the animals, they are considered intelligent but not
confused intelligence with training. On the other hand, animals can’t predict
something before it starts; animals are trained to act after something starts.
According to the authors, only 10 percent of animal owner said that animals can
predict something, in the majority of cases are convulsion, heart attack, etc.
Authors conclude that animals who do things incredible are very intelligent, the
same way for humans.
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