Frans De Waal The Brain Of The Animal Kingdom

The article Animals Mind by Virginia Morell claim the idea that animals are smart. Virginia talk about Irene a recently graduated from Harvard University who experimented with a gray parrot named Alex. Irene teach Alex to reproduce sound of the English language. Alex learned to talk and count to six and also he can difference flavors and colors. Virginia said that animals are capable to think, and they can learn things from humans. The author point dogs understand human’s forms of communication. She also suggests that animals has a higher mental abilities: good memories and also creatively. Virginia support the main idea that animals are smart. If animals can learn and memorize and understand signs is because they can think. So animals have

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In the article “A Change of Heart about Animals” (2003), published by Los Angeles Times, author Jeremy Rifkin discusses how our fellow creatures are more like humans than we had ever imagined. Using academic diction, Rifkin develops his main idea with evidence such as Caledonian crows being able to make tools to complete a task. These birds were given the task of grabbing meat out of a tube with a choice of two tools, a hooked wire and a straight wire. Both of the birds were able to complete the task, however, one bird showed exceptional cognitive abilities when she bent a straight wire into a hook to grab the meat. This suggests a logos persuasive appeal that broadens the reader’s awareness of the conceptual abilities of crows. Rifkin’s use

After reading Jeremy Rifkin’s article, “A Change of Heart about Animals”, I discovered more about animals than I had ever known before. As a former pet owner I know how much owners care for their pets and consider them to be a part of the family, almost like a child to them, so they are treated with kindness and are loved to the fullest. What I did not know was how intelligent animals actually are. Rifkin does a great job at expressing this by demonstrating to the audience facts that they had possibly not known or heard of before. For example, he describes how crows can make tools out of a wire, gorillas can learn sign language and have an average score on an Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test, and how pigs can often feel lonely and go into depression.

Chris Reilly is a government commissioner in a town in Pennsylvania .He helped sort absentee-ballots because his county didn’t have the money to do so. He noticed that the applications for Donald Trump were 10:1 male, He also noticed that in the employment box was roofer, forklift operator, dockworker, grouter and so on, hard labor jobs. He understood that these people had never voted before, that they were just coming out of nowhere. Chris was so surprised that Trump was actually getting this much support.

I suppose human brain is the most complex machine that ever existed! With over 7.146 billion models it is also the most ubiquitous. Despite the research and the studies, scientists are still unsure of brain complexity. Scientists still do not understand how the brain works. Regardless of defining the functionality of certain areas of the brain, and by understanding some of the mechanics at the neural chemical level, scientists remain ignorant of how the brain coordinates all its activities and develops language, thought and a sense of self. Thus, will human entirely or exactly understand how the brain cause the hearts to beat, or make people happy, breathe without thinking, fall in love, fear see, dream, learn, remember, taste, feel or smell? How could such a small organ that only weight about 3 pounds and around 15 centimeters long, become so complex and complicated?

Some people think animals are dumb but they are just calling themselves dumb. Animals are smart because in the article speaking bonobo it states, “ Kanzi touched the symbols for fire and marshmallow, then hi was given matches and marshmallows on a stick…” The animal had to remember the marshmallow symbol and the fire symbol to want them.

In the two books that we read, Anthem and Brave New World, there are several things in their societies that are the same, and several things that are different. They do spend their free time doing different things, but their beliefs are basically the same.

Jeremy Rifkin provides many scientific experiments done on animals to support his claims of animals being similar to humans. I do not agree, animals may have characteristics and abilities to enhance some skills but they do not compare to the cognitive mentality of humans. Animals react based on instincts and energy. Although Rifkin uses the gorilla named Koko, Koko was an exception, she was involved in a controlled experiment. Humans react on cognitive thinking, if they were to react based on feelings or instincts one would be in a huge pickle.

The trunk of an elephant is about six feet long, one foot wide, and has more than 150,000 muscle bands. Elephants are born oblivious of how to use their trunks, but once they learn they start picking up objects either to the left or right. Since elephants evolved and now have a much smaller neck, their trunk is much longer and it helps in the process of feeding. About 80% of an elephant’s day is spent eating plants, branches, fruit, and tree bark. The tusks and trunk help aid in the process of breaking down large plants and tree bark to make it easier for the mouth. Elephants can stretch their trunks to reach objects 20 feet of the ground, which in fact has helped their feeding process a great deal. In the

And then in the section, “The Omnivore’s Brain” the author explains how our varied diet plays a role in why our brains work more efficiently than that of other animals, and how our brains are part of the cause of this dilemma. The omnivore’s dilemma wasn’t always a necessarily “bad” thing. In fact, it was said to be one of the reasons of why our brains are so large. Koalas do not require as much of brainpower, as we do, in order to determine what food to eat, since it only eats one type of food. That is why their brains barely fill up its skull. In fact, zoologists “think the koala once ate a more varied diet than it does now. As it evolved toward eating just one food, it didn’t need to think as much. Over generations, unused organs tend to

For example, imitation and teaching explain that chimpanzee’s may watch their mother doing actions academically (problem-solving) she never gives her young enough feedback or just a simple look to reinforce his observation. He concludes by explaining that humans have a preexisting capacity that allows them to represent what they imagine by combining human elements (language) while, animals clearly do not.

Shakespeare portrays the voice in a prideful manner, which causes the character to think highly of himself. While his pride it causes the speaker to state that “the tender leaves of hopes.” Thus, indicating that his ideas were noted and were gaining approval from the king, yet “the killing frost” expressing the beginning of his downfall. Therefore, the speaker utilizes this figurative language to convey the speaker's feelings and tone in the story.

The source came from a magazine called the Atlantic which covers everything from business to natural science. The article is written by Alison Gopnik, she wrote this piece about the book by primatologist Frans De Waal titled, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? In the book and in the article, the author discusses how research on many different animal species from cows to dolphins, show the scope and depth of animal intelligence. The magazine source shows a firsthand account how science has, by studying animal cognition, revealed how smart animals truly are, and how we, as humans have underestimated their abilities

Diego Rivera (1886–1957): A Mexican painter. Born in the mining town of Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1886, Diego, who studied at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City, went to Europe in 1907 and returned to Mexico in 1910. He again moved to Europe as a sign of a rebellion and stayed there until 1921 when he returned to Mexico. While in Europe, Diego formed friendships with Picasso and Braque and was influenced by cubism. After returning to Mexico, he approached indigenous cultures, pursuing to incorporate people-themed social realism into his works and express society from dynamic compositions. He established the foundation for Mexican popular art and created Man at the Crossroads (1934), a large mural painted on a public building for Mexican art. The Café Terrace (1915) and The Flower Carrier (1935) are among his famous pieces. He died of cancer in 1957, three years after Frida Kahlo’s death (Rivera Diego, 1960).