Pros And Cons Of How Smart Are Animals

The author is trying to persuade and inform us. I know this because in “How Smart Are Animals” on line 9 it states “She leapt over the five-foot fence and rushed to Andrea’s side”. So that is informing us about how dogs leap into action, but after that it states “But some people think her action was unthinking, after all it is a instinked and dogs have evolved from wolves who are highly social animals”. So all of that information are explanations. They tell us all of the pros they can do, then they wipe it all away with the cons. Most people think animals are not smart but other people say they are. Well you're probably thinking “Well then how do some dogs seek out drugs”? Well actually they take the drug so then the know the scent
of it. Have you ever heard of the “Clever Hans experiment”. Well if you have not, it was an experiment to see how smart a horse was. A man named Oskar Pfungst tried to teach a horse math with a white board and everything just like a human. Most scientists came to the shows to try to figure out how he did it. Soon they figured out that he was leaning to make the horse stomp and then leaned back to stop. So they decided to do the double blind experiment. The double blind experiment is where they have two colored balls and the person asked the question did not know the answer. Other scientists tried to test two monkeys sights one color blind and one normal. So they tried to see the intelligence of the apes.