Can Animals Think? Linden

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Suppose you are researching the ways scientists study animal intelligence. Which

question has the right scope to generate useful information?

• How intelligent is author Eugene Linden?

• What is thought?

• Which methods of testing animal intelligence work best?

• Will animals of the future be smarter than animals of today?

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Suppose you were researching cooperation between animals and humans. Which incident provides your

best supporting data?

• Orky makes a platform to help workers rescue his baby.

• Fu Manchu repeatedly picks the lock of the door.

• Meladi hides her orange in order to get another one.

• Scientists disagree about the meaning of Washoe’s signs

balmy

• mild

• round

• rough

• bent

Orky, Meladi, Tawan, and Fu Manchu have one thing in common: They all —

• trick their owners

• are orangutans

• learn to use sign language

• use intelligence creatively

beguile

• start

• charm

• finish

• glance

Fu Manchu repeatedly fools his keepers. What conclusion would a scientist come to?

• Orangutans are smarter than people.

• Fu Manchu gets lucky three times in a row.

• Fu Manchu is deliberately using deception.

• Fu Manchu is the smartest orangutan in the world.