If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. Votes: 1
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all? Votes: 1
Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs. Votes: 0
Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans. Votes: 5 Arthur D. Hlavaty
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Votes: 6 Salvador Dali