135. How do animals think?

Animals too think like human beings.  They sense danger that is going to attack them.  There are different of thinkings.  Some animals have high thinking skills too.  

For example, when studying about the chimpanzees, Jane Goodall noticed that a particular chimpanzee thinks what has been done to him / her in the past, and attack the animals who attacked him/ her earlier.

Like this, some animals have thinking skills like thinking something done in the past like the chimpanzees and some animals do not.  

Feelings and expressions:

Animals have feelings too, but they cannot show and explain the feelings by expressions.  This means they sense very frightened or very exciting feelings than we do.  

Some animals enjoy the expressions we do and try to copy them.  Some examples are dogs like to lie in the sunshine or munch delicious food and the mother cow like to cuddle her newborn calf.

Using tools:

Animals cannot compose music like Mozart or Beethoven did, but they can diverse into octopuses, dolphins, whales, etc.

The people made an experiment with the Capuchin monkeys.  Two monkeys were put into two separate glass boxes.  In the first box, there was a tool and in the second box, there was a container that would be opened only with a tools that has nuts (small tools).  The first monkey passed the tool in its box to the other monkey.  The second monkey who then open the box and actually pass over the former half of the nuts.  This proved the level of fairness that is rare in nature.

Language and counting skills:

Apes, dolphins and parrots understand the human language.  Animal have their languages in the form of whispers, whimpers, shaking, yawning, shouting, poking, calling, laughing etc.

The researchers of animals discovered that the monkeys can count only upto four.  Human beings started counting the other numbers only after the languages originated.  

Brains of animals:

Brains of animals are the same as us.  They have the same neurons as us. However, the brains of animals differ in complexity. 

Animals with more complex brains like reptiles have a thalamus.  In humans, it is involved as fear and rage.  Animals with big brains like rats have a cortex.  This part of the brains is involved in solving and learning.

                            

We are unique:

The researchers say, "We are never able to discover how exactly an animal thinks.  

What is to remember is that humans are originated from the animal species that are able to feel emotions and pain or pleasure.  

But there is a unique aspect.  Humans have something that animals doesn't have, an imagination.  

Imaginations helped humans to be adaptable and successful.  

Humans imagine something that had never originated and create it while the animals see only the world as it is already.