Some experiments towards animal intelligence

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Some experiments towards animal intelligence: Overview

This topic is activity-based which demonstrates the concept of animal behaviour. Furthermore, it also highlights the personality, habitat and facts with the aid of pictures and examples discussed here.

Important Questions on Some experiments towards animal intelligence

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Explain an animal intelligence experiment on squirrels.

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Before Alex's [African grey parrot] death it learnt upto the _____th table.

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Alex, African grey parrot, calls an apple as 'Bannery'.

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Describe in your own words experiments/research conducted on African grey parrots (Alex).

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 In 1977, _____ bought a parrot (Alex) and trained it.
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Dolphins cannot remember their names.

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'Dolphins have great logical thinking power'.
Explain this behaviour with the help of an experiment conducted by a team of scientists.

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When you do not know the answer to a question, say, a crossword puzzle hint, you realise your shortcomings and devise a strategy for finding the missing information. On the basis of the above fact state whether the given statement is True/False:
Western Scrub-Jays are not capable of Meta-cognition.

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Identify the given experimental set-up:

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Explain hiding as the characteristic feature of self-consciousness with the help of an example.

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Are squirrels smarter than dolphins?

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Explain why squirrel is called as the smartest animal?

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What is the purpose of ethology?

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Alex, an African Greyhound was trained so wisely that he learnt up to 7th table.

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The worst smelling animal in the animal kingdom is

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Fill in the blanks with the correct options from the bracket.

A bird name as _____ hides its food but unfortunately, when it searches back it has been stolen by some other bird. (Scrub jay, Parrot, Kingfisher, Golden pheasant)

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Akkikomoi, Phoenix, Allen and Hippo are the names of an organism that are given by Hermon, a scientist of the Basin mammal laboratory of Hawai islands? Identify the organism here.

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Hermon studied four bottle nose Dolphins at Kavalo Basin mammal laboratory of Hawaii islands. Identify the names given by Hermon to these dolphins. 

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Some animals spray bad smell through their body to protect themselves from _____. (prey/predators)