Top 10 Most Intelligent Animals 

When a crow dies, the rest of the murder (a flock of crows) will actually set up a crime scene to figure out the cause of death

In Australia, animals that eat toads are poisoned and die, but crows have figured out that flipping a toad on it's back to eat from it's stomach avoids the poison glands!

Chimpanzees are so smart, they say "NO" when being told to subscribe to Watchmojo.

Crows should’ve been higher up the list man! This one time I threw a pebble at a crow and from that day onwards there’s always bird shit on my car! Smart sob

Dolphins out here vaping underwater

What a difference three years make. Yes, crows in general are intelligent, but in 2018 scientists discovered that New Caledonian crows don't just USE tools, they can CRAFT tools by combining two or more otherwise non-functional elements. As it stands today, this ability has only been observed in humans, great apes, and the New Caledonian crow.

Crows are INCREDIBLY intelligent. I had a long-standing friendship with one who would commonly meet up with me at the park and follow me around. Really awesome birds who are definitely making their way up the evolutionary ladder.

Octopus should be on the main list. They are unbelievably smart!

The racoon stealing cat food killed me 😂

Octopus deserves more than an honorable mention!

1:23 that's probably me when parents are sleeping and I open the fridge

Back in my high school years one of the students had a pet crow and I was quite surprised how smart they're

What is 20 times 50 *Dog keeps barking for hours*

It was really funny how the racoon stole the cat food and dipped out 1:25 😂😂😂😂😂

I've had rats for years, 15 in total, and every single one had their own distinct personality and every single one responded when called by name ^_^

I used to have several pet rats. They are very smart. They could recognize their names and would come when called. I only kept them in their cages when I was at work. Otherwise, they had free run of the place. One particular rat named Ozzy would sit on the dining room chair and watch me cook every day. He knew that some of what I was making was for their dinner. Usually just fruit and vegetables, fish, sometimes a baked sweet potato with little marshmallows. They loved that. It's sad that their lives are so short.

that racoon that just grabbed and walked away with cat food had me dying XDD

Elephants have been know to mourn the death of a HUMAN on occasion.

I'm disabled & I picked out a Collie puppy. I've taught her a lot of things to help me. She knows her left, her right forward, & backward directions along with many other things. She's amazing!

They’re probably not in the top 10 for smartest animals, but Crocodiles, especially Nile and Saltwater crocs are pretty smart. They can memorize the patterns and times of animals coming to the water to drink, they display fairly extensive parental care, especially for reptiles and some of them have even used tools. Very interesting animals

Did you guys know that an octopus will use its tentacles to measure to width of a whole to see if it can squeeze through? The only thing the octopus cannot compress is the cartilage between its eyes, like the cartilage in our noses. It also figured that it could not take a crab out of a bottle, so it squeezed inside and ate the crab, digested it, and then left the bottle. Such a fascinating creature.

7:10 I can't believe you've done this

No mention of bears. They're amazingly smart. Especially when it cones to pik-a-nik baskets.

When you killed a crow or raven. It's pals will remember your face and attack you, mostly sucking out your eyes.

rat should be higher did you hear about that one rat that learned English and karate and than taught it to four turtles Edit: Holy shit thanks for the likes and hilarious comments

Octopus HAD to be in the top 10 somewhere.... honorable mention isn't good enough

1:20 Racoon: Hi cats... Okaaaay, I'm just gonna steal your food.

It's so good to watch this to have more knowledge. Keep it up.

Octopus should have been on the list for sure, rather than just being mentioned

A great example of intelligent animals are Ravens. They can solve complex puzzles and are considered to be one of the most intelligent birds.

Thanks for acknowledging and including the titles of movies and documentaries

Cats are very smart. My cat has me paying all the Bill's and buying the food. Yet she won't let me sit on my own favourite chair 😼

Elephants are still my favorite, they're just so innocent.

how about Orcas (Killer whales)...They have a special part of the brain that we don't have.

we find out in tests that rats are incredibly intelligent but continue to inhumanely test them

"intelligent problem solvers" *Shows clip of dolphin eating a bubble it created*

Octopus deserves better.

You missed the greatest part about the mask and the crows. The crows actually doesnt seen this particular mask before. The man scared the mother of these crows. The experiment showed that crows can actually give information (like talking) to their kind about one certain human face. They dont have to see it. The crows showed the same scared reaction to the face like their mother. Plus the mother wasnt around at the time of the second experiment. That is a very detailed information for an animal. Incredible huge in my opinion. PS: In Berlin (and elsewhere too for sure) are crows who learned about the traffic lights. They wait for red for cars and fly to the waiting cars in front of the traffic light. The crow put a nut under the wheel and will fly on a higher position. It waits for green, cars driving, nut is open. But it is actually clever enough and wait again for red, even if no car is around. Only if it is save and the traffic light shows red, the crow comes back and claim their reward. PPS: Border Collies are pretty smart for dogs, but dogs in general are not very clever if you compare them with wild animals. wolves are in average as smart as the smartest dogs. so humans breed the intelligence out of them... But this is not a surprise, animals in the wild have to use their brain to survive, pets have to use their brain to get more fat. ;)

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When the racoon runs on its hind legs, it looks like a robber with sagged pants trying to run.

Cats are even smarter but they refused to participate in tests.

Octopus deserve to be more than just an honorable mention.

The cat was like “is this Racoon seriously taking food from us??” Cat was too shocked to do anything 😂😂

I’m convinced my Border Collie is just a human wearing a fur coat. Please don’t get one - they’re too smart, he knows what I’m saying all the time- oh my god help-

The most intelligent could be the ones that have kept themselves hidden and are still unknown

If Raccoons are so smart then why the hell do they keep running into the street while i'm driving

Dolphins and elephants are my favorites! - dolphins have again and again revealed themselves as saviors of man - elephants are just enormous, powerful and passionate (shows human like compassion)

This is awesome, cheers.

Can't believe octopus didn't make it

The whales: They learn for 200 years, but their environment is so different from ours we have no means to comprehend them; and for example as you saw on this video we measure intelligence with tools at close range, but what whales do works on huge distances and objects that we can't wrap our intelligence around.

Loved Joe Dirt,s comment about the cats ,you cant tell a cat what to do and when, only when they want to, and they are clever, Graham Boult.

When aliens test human's intelligence: Alien: "So what is a product of 2341233 and 41234432?" Humans: "Uhhhhhh" Alien: "Let's train them to be a little bit more intelligent"

Love the way the raccoon was looking away as he stole the food "Nothing to see here"

Crow should've been "corvid" to include the equally clever ravens and magpies. We used to have a lot of trouble with ravens getting into the trash when I was a kid. Even when the trash can was latched shut, they'd work together to pry the latch open and then knock the can over to get at the goodies they'd learned would be inside.

10:18 Even this Chimpanze have better FRENCH BEARD than me !! 😂😂

Cats should be on this list. Mine knows how to open doors, and knows where I store the food.

I have a border collie and he's so smart it's annoying. You can't fool him into doing things you need him to because he's just too clever. It's like the more clever you are the less innocent you are and sometimes I just wished he was stupid. But I love him so much LOL

I own rats and can confirm that they're super smart. Mine can recognise my voice over the telephone.

Brilliant channel 😊

I expected Border Collie (#9) to rank MUCH higher.... I suppose the breed as whole is taking into consideration, but meeting collies meant to work on a farm, that were bred to work - it's just crazy when you look into their eyes! Constantly assessing, evaluating - not just their incredible energy.

I thought humans would make the list but then I thought....oh wait, we still have conservatives.

Orcas: am I a joke to you?

1:18 when I find out my sister tried keeping me away from chips while looking away

I agree with you I wouldn't change the list at all

They reward the Dolphin by feeding it a very intelligent Squid.

*I TOUCH MY ANCESTOR'S BONES AS A SIGN OF RESPECT*

That border collie had the cuts like barry sanders!!!

The video of the orangutan laughing hysterically at a magic trick still blows my mind every time.

I notice that politicians aren't on the list.

Humans are the smartest animals

All of these animals have been observed for years but we still haven't scratched the surface of how smart they are. It proves that there was intelligence long before humans walked the earth.

Who ever put this together BRAVO 🎉.. I ❤ed it 👍

“Elephants recognize 12 distinct tones of music” Me a musician: there are only 12 tones.

Pigs.. one of the smartest animals in the world, yet the worst treated animal on the planet. :(

@1:23 . May very well be the BEST clip on RU-vid

Good list

"Be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com" "NOOOO!"

The jumping spider should be an honourable mention. 😀 They may not be as smart or big as mammals and other animals, but they're the smartest spider out there. They make amazing pets too.

Solving different types of problems for food is one thing, but recognizing their mirror reflection as themselves and asking(!) questions such as Orangutans are capable of is on another level. It's more and more evident that our/life's foundation is shared but technology/tools/means of expression is where we diverge. We have much to learn

No word of a lie one of my border collies once got in a Royal Mail van and sat waiting for the postman. She loves the postman and vice versa but he's adamant that door was closed when he left it (would have to be I guess) and said when he came back and saw the passenger door wide open he thought he'd been robbed. Then got nearer and there she is happy as a pig in shit wiggling at him “Yeeeee it's you... I like you I do” Same dog can open and close doors, unlock gates, carry buckets and stuff for recycling or laundry etc but I didn't teach her how to bust into Royal Mail vans and sit patiently on the passenger seat.

Elephants can also recognize themselves in a mirror. My goats sister died, she was depressed for 3 days. She hid at the back of the pasture and didn’t eat. She finally came out, walked up to me and laid her head on my leg. I felt so sorry for her.

Pigeons shall prevail

Personally I’d put the Crow at number one because of the Caledonian Crows ability to craft its own tools and hooks and ability to use a tool to retrieve the appropriate tool for the job. That is unbelievable intelligence.

I was hoping ravens would get some recognition as an intellect

dolphins vape?!

I met the most adorable Orangutan at the National Zoo. He knew sign language, and was great at expressing his feelings. I was so amazed that I watched him for over an hour. Elephants, dolphins, and whales are extremely intelligent.

Bro that raccoon video of him stealing that food gets me EVERYTIME 😂😂

It's all fun and games until the elephant says he's going to go smoke a pack of cigarettes

You forgot the jumping spider genus, Portia. It's considered the most intelligent arthropod. Because it retains some of the best depth perception in the world, as well as sight in general, they can measure distance as good if not better than we can. They also show an ability to adapt, improvise, and calculate their every movement and strikes that rivals many mammals. This genus of jumping spider has been observed to hunt with almost intellectual tactics, stalking their prey and looking for the best direction to strike according to their preys position

the best way to judge a persons character is how they treat animals. they don't have voices of their own. they're at our mercy. be merciful.

I had a Siamese cat that was very smart. Siamese cats are regular cats turned up to eleven. They’re a very smart breed. My cat had problem solving skills and, among other things, learned how to turn the doorknob on my bedroom door to open the door.

Octopuses should've been given a spot on this list rather than just giving them an honorable mention, they are pretty smart and actually rival humans in terms of smartness, certainly smarter than a racoon or parrot!

It's not correct that crows are the only non-mammals to use tools. Of course there are other birds who do so. But even the honorably mentioned octopus who is a squishy mollusk does use tools,. It's even shown how it walks on the sea floor with it's coconut shells! And it can do a lot of other amazing things, like learning by watching, walking mazes, escaping from a tank and reckognizing individual people. The problem is that it's intelligence is so alien that it's hard to assess.

TRUE STORY: So there was this dolphin, and the was a lot of trash in his tank. He was the smartest dolphin in the tank, so the zookeeper gave him a fish for every piece of trash the dolphin gave him. The dolphin kept giving the zookeeper tiny bits of trash for fish, so the zookeeper started wondering where the heck the dolphin got all that small trash. Turns out, the dolphin was tearing off tiny bits of trash off of a paper bag to get more fish rather than turning in one bag and getting only 1 fish.

Wow... cats didnt even get an honorable mention?

Crows can remember a face for two years that’s impressive and every “caw caw ca-caw” they make is a word for there language they should’ve been higher on the list

7:12 that boi just hit his buddy in the face and he looked SO over it lol

I think this was absolutely eye opening. I always knew that some of these animals were very intelligent but it was very interesting to see the ones I did not know about. Nice story and I look forward to seeing more of your stoies now that I now have become a subscriber.

I actualy agree with your list

I think every animal is intelligent. Some in ways that we will never understand. I love knowing that we share this planet with all creatures great and small.