Animals with fewer nerve cells might exhibit less sophisticated behaviours than those with more neurons. This article has the ...

However, some animals are often considered "dumb" due to their behaviour, which may seem illogical or inefficient by human standards. These creatures might rely on rigid survival strategies ...

From koalas and their eucalyptus-heavy diet to the slow-moving sloths, the animal kingdom is full of creatures that have adapted unique, and some might say "dumb," survival strategies. While these ...

What is the dumbest animal on Earth? Spoiler: It's not your uncle who tried to deep-fry a turkey in his bathtub.

Are the turkeys on your Thanksgiving dinner plates really the dumbest animals in the world? Given that sponges and jellyfish are animals, and they don’t have as much as a single brain cell ...

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Natural selection (not to mention deliberate selection by people) might therefore be expected to dumb domestic animals down. Dogs, however, look like an exception to this rule. Some, such as ...

And the best thing about it is that the animals are trained to enter the stall themselves whenever they fancy being milked. Seeing these dumb animals offering themselves up to be milked put us in ...