What's the smartest insect?

The 3 Smartest Insects
  • Honey Bees. Hands down, honey bees are generally considered the smartest insect, and there are several reasons that justify their place at the top. ...
  • Ants. Ants, tiny as they are, actually come in the number 2 spot for insect intelligence. ...
  • Cockroaches.
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Are there intelligent insects?

Insects certainly display complex and apparently intelligent behavior. They navigate over long distances, find food, avoid predators, communicate, display courtship, care for their young, and so on. The complexity of their behavioral repertoire is comparable to any mammal.
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What is the IQ of a cockroach?

The exact IQ of a cockroach is unknown. What we do know is that they do possess a level of intelligence. Cockroach brains are considered primitive, as are most insect brains. Cockroaches are not capable of the same level of thought and consciousness as humans.
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Are ants the smartest insect?

Despite the relative smallness of an ant's brain in comparison to humans, scientists consider the ant to have the largest brain of all insects. Regardless of how ant brains are rated, they can communicate, avoid and fight enemies, search for food, show courtship signals, and use complex navigation over long distances.
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Do insects feel love?

“Even insects express anger, terror, jealousy and love, by their stridulation.”
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Do bugs cry?

Insects do not have vocal chords or a voice.
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Can insects get drunk?

But what about insects? Insects may seem too small in size to become drunk off of alcohol, but you would be wrong. Just about any insect can become intoxicated if you expose it to alcohol. However, there is at least one type of insect that actively seeks out fermented fruit that causes intoxication.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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Do ants know we exist?

They are capable of seeing, smelling, and feeling us.

However, they don't know we are humans. Ants can't conceptualize the idea of human beings (“conceptualize” means “to have an abstract concept”).
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Do cockroaches have brains?

Cockroaches have two brains—one inside their skulls, and a second, more primitive brain that is back near their abdomen. Schweid says “Pheromones, chemical signals of sexual readiness, operate between a male and female cockroach to initiate courtship and copulation.
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Are cockroaches immortal?

Myth #1: Cockroaches are immortal.

False: While it might seem this way at times, there are ways to kill them. Now it can be tricky because they are smart and resourceful. A cockroach can live without its head for a week as they can breathe through other body parts.
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Do roaches have feelings?

They don't feel 'pain,' but may feel irritation and probably can sense if they are damaged. Even so, they certainly cannot suffer because they don't have emotions.
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Do roaches have hearts?

Yes, cockroaches have multi-chambered hearts. Cockroaches have an open circulatory system, which mainly consists of a 13-chambered structure heart, aorta and a system of ill-defined blood spaces known as sinuses.
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Do ants feel pain?

Over 15 years ago, researchers found that insects, and fruit flies in particular, feel something akin to acute pain called “nociception.” When they encounter extreme heat, cold or physically harmful stimuli, they react, much in the same way humans react to pain.
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Can spiders think?

But these examples pale in comparison to how a spider's thinking is interwoven with its web. Scientists are discovering that some spiders possess cognitive abilities rivaling those of mammals and birds, including foresight and planning, complex learning, and even the capacity to be surprised.
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Do ants have funerals?

It's true that ants don't have funerals and they don't give speeches at these funerals, but they do have underground cemeteries, sort of. And they do stack their dead in all kinds of interesting ways.
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Do ants pee?

No, ants do not pee. In fact, most insects don't pee. All the waste that needs to be expelled comes out of one hole as one waste. Their poops aren't wholly solid, though, because there is a moistness to them due to liquid content.
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Do ants get angry?

Ants don't have complex emotions such as love, anger, or empathy, but they do approach things they find pleasant and avoid the unpleasant. They can smell with their antennae, and so follow trails, find food and recognise their own colony.
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What animal never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal has blue milk?

Hippopotamus gives the milk of blue color. Blue milk, also known as Bantha milk, was a rich blue-colored milk produced by female banthas. Sentients drank it, and also used it in bantha butter, blue bantha buttermilk biscuits, blue-milk cheese, blue milk custard, ice cream, and yogurt.
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Can insects get depressed?

They can be literally buzzing with delight at pleasant surprises, or sink into depression when bad things happen that are out of their control. They can be optimistic, cynical, or frightened, and respond to pain just like any mammal would.
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Can a fish get drunk?

That's right—fish get drunk, too! Working with Zebrafish—a common fish used in lab studies—researchers at NYU exposed fish to various environments of EtOH, technical-speak for alcohol.
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Can you get a cow drunk?

Can You Give A Cow Alcohol? liver of a cow easily breaks down alcohol so the animal may enjoy it. A liter of wine would make a man tipsy, but a 500-pound cow would only be affected slightly, he said. Chuckling, he replied, “A liter doesn't seem like much when you're dealing with an animal that big.”.
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