Checkout The Ten Smartest Animals On Earth.

A
human baby learns most things from his/her mother, which reflects
imitation in most habits. Then what about parrot’s imitation skill of
human speech, facial expressions of Apes or protecting power of dogs?
aren’t they intelligent?  Here the list of 10 most intelligent animals
in the world.

10. Ant

Being
the smallest member of animal kingdom ants don’t have a large brain.
The complex society and the communication system follow by the ants are
very tricky and fascinating. For every human on Earth, there are 1.5
million ants in 12000 species. Ants evolved in the era when the
dinosaurs roaming on Earth.

Intelligent habits of Ants

• Ants
  started farming 50 million years before humans. They cultivate the
  fungus in leaves and then eat them. The trick is collectively known as fungus farming
• .Ants
  formed well-planned colonies that have thousands of miles in length,
  have different sections for farming, collecting foods and for gathering.
  Each ant colonies have a unique chemical identity through which they
  recognize the strangers.
• Ants are traveled by following the
  pheromone chemical laid by the scout ant who in charge of finding the
  food. It is interesting to say that each ant will lay trails for the
  following ants.
• Some special species of ants will enslave other species to build their own mass colonies.
• Ants can carry objects 50 times greater than their body. Because they have with thick muscles in proportion to body size.

9. Crow

Crows
are one of the largely populated bird species in the world. Being
unafraid of human presence and with the baffling inborn intelligence
they are smart enough to make trouble over humans. The tricks that used
by crows for finding food and building nest reflects the unmatchable
intelligence of this species of bird.

Intelligent habits of Crows

• Crows
  have the largest brain in bird species except for some special species
  of parrots. They are intelligent enough to recognize the human faces and
  to hide their food from other birds. Crows are also known for using
  different tools for their own advantages.
• Crows make closer
  observations on the human world to find food. For example crows used to
  drop the nuts in traffic lines to break the husks to get food. They also
  know how to break nuts by dropping on rough surfaces.
• Crows used different tools like stones and pebbles to attack predators in the world of birds.

8. Otters

Otters
are the smallest marine mammal in the animal world. They are one of the
playful animals used to live in the bank of rivers and ocean shores.
Sea otters used tools like rocks to find food, to remove unwanted parts
of fish and crabs.
Sea otters can smartly sense the presence of
predators by catching the difference in vibrations of water. The
childish actions of sea otter itself reflect its intelligence, will
dance and make sliding at the band of rivers and in mud.

7. Pig

Pigs
are one of the extremely intelligent, playful, social animal in the
animal kingdom. According to sevral studies pigs have more cognitive
power than dogs and human babies.

Intelligent habits of pigs

• Pigs followed the fascinating social life, they walk together, eat together, play together and they sleep close to each other.
• Pigs
  use 20 different types of vocalizations to communicate each other, even
  a newborn pig can understand what the sound actually meant produces by
  its mother.
• Extremely clean animal, good sense to keep the toilet area far away from home.
• They can trace the home even from far away distance.
• Wild pigs used to create an area for growing new plants, also plays an important role in the transportation of seeds.

6. Octopus

Octopuses
are most intelligent and sentient creature among invertebrates. The
tricks they used for sensing the presence of enemies and finding show
the intelligent power of octopuses.

Intelligent habits of Octopi

• The only creature in invertebrates to use tools.
• Baby octopus easily learns the habits from other octopuses.
• Octopus released a black ink type fluid at the time it discovered by others, have ability to dull the sense of smell.
• Octopus have the ability to change the shapes of the body in many away to avoid predators.
• Octopus used to make shields over their lair using different types of shells.

5. Dog

Best
ever companion of human. An average dog is intelligent as a 2 year old
human baby. They have an excellent sense of smell, protecting power,
learning ability from the human world.

Intelligent habits of dogs

• Dogs have a better understanding of the human world than any other animals.
• Faster learning ability from surroundings.
• Have a high degree of understanding.
• Can locate the home from distant places.
• Their brain can identify a million types of scents.
• Ability to respond to commands from their owners.

4. Whale

Several
whale species are more like dolphins. But being very large in size, it
is difficult task to train whales. At the same time the social behavior,
communication techniques and imitation power shows by whales make them
as one of the most intelligent animals.

Intelligent habits of whales

• Sperm whales have a larger brain than any other living things.
• Cognitive abilities through the presence of spindle cells within the brain.
• Whales communicate each other by producing complex vocal tones.
• They are extremely social, travel and hunt in groups.
• The beluga whales show the ability to mimic human speech.

3. Elephant

Elephants
have the largest brain than any other land animals. Elephants show
extreme social and intelligent behaviors. Elephants are also one of the
faithful companions of humans.

Intelligent habits of Elephants

• Extremely social animals, can easily learn from the surroundings.
• Elephants can recognize hundreds of individual sounds.
• Elephants show a range of emotions like joy, playfulness and sorrow.
• Can mimic a wide range of sounds.
• The power to use different tools for finding food.

2. Dolphin

Dolphins
are world’s third most intelligent animal in the world. Humans make use
of intelligence of dolphins for solving many of the mysteries across
world oceans.

Intelligent habits of dolphins

• Dolphins brain is big relative to its body size.
• They can express different types of emotions.
• Better learning capability from the surroundings.
• At resting time, only one side of the dolphin’s brain sleeps, help to aware about the threats.
• Dolphins are the only marine animal that passes the mirror test.

1. Great Ape

Apes are the second most intelligent living organism
in the world after humans. According to many scientific theories,
humans were evolved from the apes family. Apes follow extreme social
life and express different types of emotions. The family of
apes includes chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos.

Intelligent habits of Great Apes

• Great communication power.
• Ability to learn from surroundings.
• Make their own home. Also use different tools for finding food.
• The DNA of gorillas shows similarity with human’s.
• Apes can understand individuality and can learn words, even human language.
• Defends enemies by using tools.