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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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How do we determine the intelligence of an animal?
gpt
We apply an arbitrary human-centric metric to it. Seriously.

Have you ever heard that 'dolphins are as smart as a third-grader" or "ravens can figure out more complex puzzles than the average 10-year old"? We can't measure a species' intelligence as that species because we value human traits. Unless we create a metric that measures a dog's ability to retrieve food or an elephant's ability to protect its young from a lioness or a chimpanzee's capacity for safely recovering its position in a tree when its branch breaks, measuring the intelligence of other animals is futile.

Forcing an animal to do a human task and measuring its ability to complete that task and, therefore, its perceived intelligence on a human-centric scale isn't the same as measuring that animal's intelligence.