AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mammals Are Smart Mammals have unique brains and are often very intelligent. Humans are the most intelligent. Other intelligent mammals include the dolphin, the elephant, the chimpanzee, and the pig. That’s right, pigs are thought to be one of the smartest animals!

Detailed explanation-2: -Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) are well-studied social mammals (Wells et al. 1987; Smolker et al.

Detailed explanation-3: -We humans, and most of the animals we’re familiar with–cats and dogs, cows and horses, rats and mice, bats and dolphins, elephants and rhinos–are ‘placental mammals’.

Detailed explanation-4: -They are social animals that live in complex, ever changing communities, where individuals have long term associations with other individuals that are repeated but not necessarily constant. Bottlenose dolphin societies are comprised of a large number of individuals with distinct subgroups.