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Originally posted by greytone
Of course animal are dumb, which we all know means "lacking the power of speech" or "not willing to speak." That does not mean that they are not capable of using language. Dogs clearly can learn a number of words, probably a few dozen. Any one who has had to spell B-A-T-H knows this. Primates have learned sign language. They had limited vocabularies, but they did learn to use proper syntax. Are they as intelligent as people? Of course not. But some species are capable of some behavior that indicates some level of what we call intelligence (or what everyone but Sixate calls intelligence).
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What? Birds don't communicate? Bees don't say where to find food? You need to remember that the HUMAN language is not the ONLY language. One does not need to be VOCAL to communicate... Sign Language says enough. So it is a FACT that animals communicate and thus have a language, thus.. Animals are NOT dumb.
Intelligence -- The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
Ya know? That is precisly it. You guys keep saying, they aren't smart, they just learn things and apply it.. um.. yeah and that is intelligence.
Sixate: Everything is from Humans... Maybe now, but how did we first try to fly? We mimic'd the birds... I bet if you go back archaeologically, you might find out that we learned things from the animals. But more importantly, you state that animals just copy things... Hmm thats what we do.. We learn things..and then do those... You said when you can see a cat shoot hoops then you'll say its intelligent.. Did you learn how to shoot hoops by copying someone? Hmm you just copied, by that definition, you're not that intelligent.
As always, No offence intended, Just debating and debating needs opposition.