Move Over Doctor Dolittle - Here Comes the iPad

...soon we will be able to talk to polititions, CEO's and teenagers too!

Actually that won't be so difficult. They all 3 share a common language:

"Gimmie some money for doin' nuthin!"

That would be a way of demonstarting their intelligence; but dolphins are not the only animals who posses the brains to interact with their surroundings.

Actually, that is not a virtue exclusive to "superior" animals, and hi-tech toys are not required either; every once on a while, we see demonstrations of lower forms of wildlife figuring out stuff (even human related stuff), untying knots, opening jars, hammering with watever is on hand etc.

Let me tell you about a little crab I saw in a well besides my house:

This clever guy grabbed a little stick that was floating, then located himself about 4" beneath the water surface, waited 'till the water was on calm and started touching the water surface with the stick; concentric waves were created, and somehow they called the attention of many little fish from around.

They avidly gathered around the center point of the waves, and when there were a few dozens, the naughty crab released the stick and begun snaping his clamp in all directions among the fish 'till he captured one !

I wish I had a camcorder that day, but at least I was convinced that intelligence seems to be not of the sole domain of mammals; who knows what kind of critters do their tricks and no one has witnessed it yet.

Yahlasit