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Reading this article makes me think a lot about my own pets, and whether they could be considered smart or not. I would say that animals are definitely intelligent. Maybe they do not reflect upon the purpose of their actions like humans do, but there must be thoughts and reason they do things. For example, once my parrot made a break for it from my house in New Jersey. We searched for a couple of hours before finding her a couple streets away, on the porch of a house that was the same model as ours. My dad would let Click (that's the birds name) sit out on the porch when her wings were trimmed. I think that Click flew off, and then saw a house with a porch like ours and decided to land there, says something. She must have recognized it, and decided to go there.