"This book profiles the intellectual abilities of ten animals, including pigs, dogs, and dolphins" (publisher).

Check out the hunting packs, secret food-stasher, and multi-tasking arms. The animal kingdom can be smart! Explore 10 super clever animals. Engaging photos, a high-impact design, and highly repeatable facts make this top 10 list a wild exploration through the animal world.

The accompanying teacher's plan for "The 10 Smartest Animals."

A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.

Which animal can find its way through a maze and even learn shortcuts? And which animal is so smart it lets cars do the hard work of cracking open its food?

Combining heroic stories of dogs with the latest scientific and psychological information, this book has provoked controversy with its lists that rank more than 100 breeds and its exciting new insights into the thoughts, emotions, and inner lives of dogs.

Dolphins are some of the world’s smartest animals! This fact-filled title explores the intelligence of these smart swimmers through leveled text and engaging photos. Readers will discover why dolphins are smart, how they use their intelligence, and how humans study them. Along the way, special features such as a brain comparison chart, a skills graphic, a profile, and a scientific study offer even more information.

Discusses recent research on levels of intelligence in both wild and domestic animals.

Some animals can use their great strength to survive in the wild. This book takes a look at several of these animals, many of which can lift objects many times their weight.