If you pick up Marc Hauser's book "Wild Minds" you can get a sense to the limits and extents of animal intelligence...He made an exhaustive study and did some
very thorough experiements concerning how humans and animals think and perceive..

One of the interesting areas of study concerns counting..From experiments and the
interpretation of their results, it appears that all species can count and must do so to survive..Humans learn to count after just 4 days of life by recognizing a violation
of quantitative expectencies..Lions roar out of sequence to disguise their numbers
to distant prides..

Ants can be fooled with flashlights, mistaking them for the Sun and sending them on discourse as their shadows no longer move with the rythmn that daytime hours
provide.

Birds tap into the Earth's magnetic field and can read positions of the Sun and the stars to navigate. Surround them in a room with a magnetic field and a few lights
to pose as different Suns and they will become disorientated..

Humans can tap into the magnetic field as well. While blindfolded and taken on
journeys we can find our way back. But blindfolded and strapped with a magnetic fields around our heads brings a disorientation.

There is a trade off between what we know and what they do. Therefore, we are on an
equal basis with them..They have no need for money and government. We do.

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