Jeremy Rifkin the author of “A Change of Heart about Animals uses research that he found about different animals to persuade the audience into thinking that animals feel pain, but what he also does is use the evidence about the birds Abel and Betty and which hook that they would rather use to get food. He also talks about Koko the 300 pound gorilla who was taught sign language and mastered more than 1,000 signs and can also understand several thousand english words. To me that is how you persuade people into thinking that animals are and can be smart. Braithwaite only used one piece of evidence and it was: They can learn geometrical relationships and landmarks- and then use these to generate a …show more content…
Fish can perform multiple complex task “simultaneously” due to cerebral lateralization , a trait that was until recently thought to be uniquely human.They can recall the location of objects using features, a capacity developed by humans at approximately the age of six;and they have excellent long-term memories. They can cooperate with another and show signs of Machiavellian intelligence such as cooperation and reconciliation”; and can use tools, another in a long list of skills that was supposed to be unique to