While dolphins are among the animal kingdom's most intelligent animals, they are not likely the only math champs.

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Again, like the problems with figuring out the genes and gene expression, the simple aspect of gestation will also likely produce uplifted, intelligent animals that may be deformed and doomed to suffer.

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At 10, an aunt gave him a young adults' book to read -- "Beasts, Brains and Behaviors" -- which sparked his interest in animals as intelligent creatures.

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Mahathir has always argued that Asia's economic troubles were caused by fickle international investors (or, as he called them recently, "funnymentals, intelligent humans behaving like silly animals in a herd"), not a lack of financial transparency and accountability and certainly not because of a lack of democracy.

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There is an undeniable fascination about the Great Apes, among the most intelligent and socially organized of all animals.

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In the same way that evolution by natural selection can produce purposeful designs without an intelligent designer to prefigure the purpose, so animals can show behavior that evolved to be purposeful but is not psychologically motivated.

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These animals build sophisticated structures for foraging, but would we call this behaviour 'intelligent'?

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Organizations like Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace, The International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Humane Society and -- yes -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals all campaign in various ways to stop the decimation of whales and other intelligent creatures of the sea.

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