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Are Tigers 'Brainier' Than Lions?
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Some scientists believe they are and some believe they aren't. Different studies will have different results.
Although this isn't lion and tiger it helps prove social animals are more intelligent. https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/09/24/soc...tans-10210 Cognitive scientists believe that social learning -- i.e., learning behaviors from others -- enhances an animal's ability to learn new things by itself. In other words, social intelligence helps promote individual intelligence. This idea, called the cultural intelligence hypothesis, also has a corollary: Social species should have evolved to be better at problem-solving than related, non-social species. A team of mostly Swiss researchers put this hunch to the test by studying how two different species of orangutan responded to various intellectual challenges. In total, the authors examined 33 zoo-dwelling orangutans, 19 of which were Sumatran (a more social species) and 14 of which were Bornean (a more solitary species). Their prediction was that the Sumatran orangutans would be more clever. They were right. In one task, a transparent box with two openings of different sizes contained a piece of fruit. |
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