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1. What is the capability of ants? 2. Ants and Us 3. More Intelligent Life 4. [|__http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/jm-ledgard/ants-and-us?page=full__] 5. Website; June 9th 6. Speaker: More Intelligent Life, ants, humans, Ed Wilson Occasion: anytime, when debating the intelligence of an ant, when thinking about intelligence other than of humans Audience: anyone, people who are not informed of an ants’ intelligence Purpose: to inform people of the life ants live and the skills they have and the intelligence they possess Subject: The comparison between ants and humans Tone: reflective, informative 7. Humans don’t take into account, or give credit to ants, for being as intelligent as they are. Ants have been around for millions of years and carry out a lot of difficult tasks. In various circumstances, ants reveal many similarities to humans. 8. Ants possess great intelligence and acts in many ways, similar to humans. 9. I am convinced by the author of this article. Especially because they focus a lot on a biologist who has studied ants, Ed Wilson. The information this article uses from Wilson’s findings makes this article valid and reliable.10. > > > >
 * “ The blank eyes, the glands under the jawbone secreting pheromones that signal alarm, laid down by foraging ants and reinforced by following ants to show the shortest possible route to a source of food.”
 * “History is almost certainly colony against individual and colony against colony. If group selection is correct, what you would expect to find is an intense human desire to form groups that attack other groups; bands of brothers, teams.”
 * “He emphasises how an ant colony “insists upon absolute sovereignty” and demands “constant population growth and ever-rising productivity”, traits which seem to shared by humans.”
 * “As primitives we ate them, they were our crunch, and now they are lodged in our subconscious.”

1. Are animals intelligent? 2. Think You’re Smarter Than Animals? Maybe Not 3. Alexandra Horowitz and Ammon Shea; The New York Times 4. [|__http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/opinion/sunday/think-youre-smarter-than-animals-maybe-not.html?_r=1&__] 5. Website; June 2nd 6. Speaker: Horowitz and Shea, animals Occasion: when thinking or talking about the intelligence of animals compared to humans Audience: anyone and everyone Purpose: to reveal that animals are in fact intelligent in more ways than we (humans) think Subject: different intelligences that animals display Tone: sarcastic, resourceful 7. This article highlights the concept that an animal's intelligence and human intelligence are difficult to compare. Especially since we test the same way we would test a humans intelligence. But if you look at the day to day tasks and behavior of animals, it is easy to see that they are quite intelligent. 8. Animals possess intelligence that cannot be compared with the human capability because animals and humans are different. 9. The author brings up two perspectives on the topic of animal intelligence. And animal intelligence is viewed in a more fair way. I am convinced that the findings in this article are accurate. 10. > > >
 * “And there is still one notable area of behavior in which animals have shown no sign of matching us: they appear to be not at all interested in running experiments testing our cognition.”
 * “ Inevitably, the results of these studies invite comparison with our own cognitive faculties. In such comparisons, humans nearly always come out on top. An impartial observer might suggest that the deck is stacked. After all, we are the ones running these tests.”
 * “But if we look at some of the subtler aspects of animal behavior, the beasts begin to offer surprisingly stiff competition.”
 * “HUMANS have long been fascinated with animal intelligence. Scientific studies have asked if animals use language or tools; have culture; can imitate, cooperate, empathize or deceive.”