Intelligence of the big cats...

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(12-30-2018, 04:23 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Well, with no science lab documents, my logic tells me to look at lifestyles. The lion hunts mostly large herbivores in open country. He is a group-hunter. The tiger is mostly a loner who prefers wooded forests. But both the leopard and the puma live and hunt is open country, forests, tropics, and mountains, from hot climates to very cold climates. So, would this greater adaptability be a sign of intelligence?

I think, that all big cats have shown that they are able to be adaptive. Then we have many opinions from people working with animals. That is why I like to see, that someone is actually creating repeatable tests, making those and now we have some results to look at. Some criticism naturally, but no-one for sure isn´t denying others do this kind of research too. These tests from Borrago are relatively new, so it can take some time before we see more similar kind of testing, but I hope, that in near future we could see some results concerning also wild tigers or tigers in very good captive conditions and from tigers, which haven´t been so long time in captivity. Then we should be able to have more comparable data what comes to results.

Without some testing and research it is quite hard to find out something, what science community could agree broadly. Reply