Reptiles are intelligent

[Catherine]

Quote:Haha! I did an IQ test once, and didn't even understand what the questions meant! It took me quite a while to understand what it was they wanted me to do!
Okay....I'd only had 3 hours sleep at the time, and no way enough coffee....(that's my excuse) but I came out as 'average'.
I couldn't be bothered to do it again.

In mitigation plea....I don't understand what humans want me to do sometimes. Smiley4

You were probably given a test that did not fit your background so it wouldn't make sense and the results would be inaccurate. You wrote a book so you are hardly "average". A physically handicapped friend of mine was given a test that needed some dexterity, which he does not have. It showed him as being average, but he graduated from university with distinction.

I think not understanding some humans is a sign of intelligence.
They tested elephants to see if they recognized themselves in a mirror and got negative results until they used an elephant sized mirror.

I have no idea how I would test my snakes intelligence. Some of them are smarter than others. It may take me years of living with them and observing them to even know that much. I think corn snakes are smarter than people give them credit for. The pine snakes move things around in their tank to set it up the way they want. They figured out how to do that. Danny didn't do things like that as a baby. She learned how to do things. They all know that my purple thermal bag means food. They also know they eat on the second day of my weekend. I was off on Good Friday, so they figured they should get fed on the Saturday instead of the Sunday. They were a little annoyed at me for making them wait until I actually had the food at home.