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Originally posted by GakFace
WhoaitsZ: GakFace.. not GadFace 
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.
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I think you may have misunderstood me. I was disagreeing with Sixate. I absolutely believe that animals exhibit the ability to problem solve and that means intelligence in my book. I would, however, have to disagree with your examples of communication. Bees communicate through phermons and a genetically programed dance. That is not language. I am not sure if bird songs can be understood to be language either. They are composed by individual birds and may be closer to music than language.