Intelligence of the big cats...

[RakeshMondal]

Of course the study is just an investigation, isn't conclusive and is debatable. What we need is more studies like this testing the intelligence of these animals.

But i managed to find a full copy of the study (on Borrego's universitys site) and found that it is extremely questionable.

https://www.cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.ed...havior.pdf


I thought it was weird that she states that here that there was no difference in exploratory behavior.

"Additionally, within Panthera, we did not observe a link between sociality and exploration. Although lions displayed the greatest exploratory diversity, they did not significantly differ from tigers and leopards (Fig. 4). In agreement with findings in other species, sociality was linked to lowered neophobia but not to exploratory behaviour"

But in the articles it was very highlighted as if that is why lions are smarter. Many people i see got fooled by that. What is going on?


Now here


"As expected, successful individuals spent a significantly higher proportion of time actively working on the puzzle-box. Once again, our overall statistical hypothesis, that innovative problem solving differs among species, was supported, and we observed a significant difference persistence among species. Social species spent the greatest proportion of time working on the puzzle-box."

Wow, so is now working more on the puzzle box now all of a sudden equals to intelligence? So if a tiger is laxy, doesn't care (which she stated here:
https://youtu.be/I4v8ydPmuzA?t=700
That the tigers are more relaxed and slow about their movements. And seems to be posted earlier in this thread, a few clips of tigers attempted to open boxes but not being interested in them at all.

You may say this is the reason why the few number of tigers used (7), haven't open the box a lot of the times. Because they simple don't care.

And what in particular is suppose to show that the animal really understands and has cognitive abilities more than the other? Is it understanding the problem, and with further trials remembering and understanding the box problem, solving it in a quicker time eventually to solving it instantly, or just merely "getting" it open the first trial counts as opening the boxes (which apparently Bengali the tiger opened it one time on his first trial and he was placed as solving the problem).

She doesn't mention any of this in her study, actual time during the trial or how it even proves intelligence

Far from a measure of intelligence.. sorry Borrego. Reply