What are the most terrifying displays of intelligence by animals?

[Rita669]

A lioness made a big kill but got remorseful.
After realizing the antelope she had killed was pregnant, the lioness removed the unborn calf and tried to shake it back to life
Her behavior was unlikely for a lioness who made a huge kill and it seemed she was clearly disturbed by what she had done and kept on looking around as if to look for a way to bring back her kill to life.
She made attempts to feed on her catch but suddenly stopped. She appeared to have lost her appetite. Overcome with grief she lay by the side of the dead antelope.
It takes intelligence to be remorseful.

The sequence of events was recorded by Gerry Van Der Walt who is a wildlife photographer.

[genericname85]

the fact that ravens probably have some version of empathy. like if you have 2 captive ravens and you give one of them a treat, they will hide and bury it for later. now if you separate the ravens such that one can not see the other anymore, the one who got the treat will go, dig up the treat and bury it somewhere else.
that shows that the raven understands that the other raven has seen where it burried the treat and therefore could take it away from him.

even 4 year old children don't have that capacity yet. so ravens are probably smarter than a 4 year old human.

[serious]

I once read or heard a story where a hunter managed to steal a TIGER's kill and take it away. The hunter had weapons so the tiger ran at that moment. The tiger did not give up though, it made a strategy to track down the hunter's location and when the hunter was away it waited for him there hiding and then killed and ate him.

I couldn't believe it. If a Tiger wants to do something that it will inevitably achieve its purpose.

[Agape93]

Some apes, like orangutan, have officially entered the stone age due to making and using stone tools, granted to a limited degree.

But some chimps in the Congo have taken to using machetes they stole from people as weapons.

[lpoots]

Toxoplasma
this lives in a rats brain , which alters the brains chemicals which make the rats fearless , these infected mice become brave and then go in the middle of fields gardens attracting cats to eat them
once the cat has eaten the rat. the parasite moves into the cats gut then it will breed. once it has developed the Toxoplasma is comes out of the cats body via its poo. the poo chemicals are changed to make the rats want to eat it. once it is inside a rats body its life cycle starts again

[libsaretards]

Their ability to sense danger we cannot. I just answered a question a few minutes ago. A German Shepherd would not let me walk past a certain point on the road. Next day I found out someone was brutally stabbed where I would have been had the dog not stopped me.

[monkeynutts]

America has a huge problem with trafficking rare animals, anyway authorities found a lion, tiger and bear cub in a basement, they now live together in a wildlife reserve, all in the same inclosures, when the first were moved they seperated them, they all started morning, and refused to eat, so they had to put them back together again. Pretty crazy, but I guess when animals suffer together, it doesn't matter if it's inter species, they bond for better or worse.

[Andres77]

https://indie88.com/so-theres-a-bear-and-a-wolf-who-have-become-best-friends-in-the-wild-and-its-unbelievably-majestic/

These are fun

[Dinosaursandanime65]

I did, but it wasn’t in any way horrific. I find it phenomenal. I can talk to my cats almost as fluently as I do with humans. Being descendants of dinosaurs, I obviously tested this on a bird next. I don’t know if the bird understood or if they thought I was twippin twippin, but we made eye contact twice and they looked sort of confused

[Pyrofox]

My favorite was when a huge like Golden Retriever decided to save a like 1wk old little bunny from a Raven. I wish I had the picture but there's a pic somewhere of the dog that is like 1000x the size of the super tiny bunny LOL.

[MTC29]

Dogs know exactly what time it is. Although they sleep 20 hours a day, they make sure they are awake when you arise and when you come home.

[strateguy632]

That does not show intelligence, just same as i feel hunger 24 hours after a meal, when you feed him, the next day hunger woke him.

[HighlyVolatile]

I find it more fascinating than terrifying but I love this one:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ja-tLej-Fzo

[strateguy632]

Any wolf pack or hyena showed plan. Reference film Beauty and the Beast 1991

[virtue2332]

Animals are obviously more intelligent than we give them credit for. I can see it in thier eyes

[jshm2]

Yeah - except it didn't happen like that.

He made up the narrative.

[jimmy2]

Well on YouTube your find that someone comes home and the dog did something and the cowards down

[xJayleenx]

Wow that is very interesting

[anton_dee]

Dayumm. That is something..

[ShyGuy303]

I feel like this was an anti abortion post🫣