Can Animals Feel and Think?

What is the author's point of view?

• Animals are just "animals"

• Animals are trained to do what humans tell them

• Animals feel emotions

• Animals are super cool

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Which animals have demonstrated the feeling of resentment?

• chimpanzees

• birds

• elephants

• antelopes

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Check all of the animals scientists in this article have studied to determine emotion.

• horses

• chimpanzees

• rats

• birds

• dolphins

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The vocabulary words that represents the feeling of anger toward another is called

• resentment

• capacity

• ingenious

• alliances

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Which of these means the animal's ability to learn?

• alliances

• capacity

• resentment

• ingenious

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In the article, it is explained that which pig outsmarts the other?

• stronger pig

• weaker pig

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Which animal does the author state is the perhaps the most amazing example of an animal thinking?

• Betty the bluebird

• Betty the crow

• Betty the cow

• Betty the hawk

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What is the purpose of the diagram on page 27?

• to show that it is not just mammals that have brains

• to show that the size of the brain dictates how smart an animal is

• to show that all of these brains have a cerebral cortex

• to show what a brain looks like

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What is the central idea in paragraph 2 on page 25?

• that scientists believe animals think and feel

• that dogs and other mammals seem to feel emotion

• that dogs come out of hiding when they feel you're no longer angry

• dogs wag their tails when you come home

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It is believed some animals have larger brains because...

• they need to control a greater number of muscles

• they are smarter

• they are bigger

• they study every night

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