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Are cats smart

Updated: 4/28/2022
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It's an opinion, but cats are quite smart. This may seem strange, but for some reason my black and white cat Avalanche "uses the bathroom" in my toilet! I think cats are one of the smartest animals I know, excluding dolphins.

Cats are the most intelligent Carnivores, with house cats being the very smartest and leopards being the smartest of the big cats.

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The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the brain region has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behaviors, personality expression, decision making and moderating correct social behavior.Cats have a very small prefrontal cortex, therefore have a hard time with executive function relating to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially-unacceptable outcomes).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortexHumans have the largest prefrontal cortex than any other animal.This is all well documented and researched. Cats have a very small almost non existent one. That is why cats react to things and are very bad at getting trained to do things.
Yes. They are very smart. They aren't book smart, like math and language, but they are very smart in the ways of survival and catching your mistakes.

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