These African animals believe they can outperform humans when it comes to parades, even without a certified commander, and they prove themselves in the video below. What you would see in this video is the least thing you ever imagined – a New Generation Army. A herder has taken his job to the next level by “recruiting” and training a group of animals as a new generation army.
He leads this dedicated group of animals, presenting a coordinated parade with uniformity and timing. This would have passed as an excerpt from a hilarious Hollywood wildlife movie, except it happened live in Africa. The 15 second video shows a selection of African animals including rams, sheep and a donkey participating in a parade. The parade is led by the shepherd, closely supported by a donkey in a short march and includes a salutation before the group finally comes to a halt.
They all seem to know when to start and stop the parade. The video is just further proof that animals can understand and relate to much more than we give them credit for. What makes the new generation army even more shocking is the fact that the animals that make up the officers are not considered particularly smart animals.
A list of the smartest animals in the world includes the following:
1. Chimpanzees: Chimpanzees are said to share about 99 percent of our DNA. They live in social communities and, like us, can adapt to different environments.
3. Elephants: They have a larger brain than any other land animal. The cerebral cortex has as many neurons as a human brain. They therefore have a really great learning ability.
4. Gray Parrots: Actually called the Einsteins of the parrot world. Some studies have shown that birds possess abstract, inferential reasoning skills.
5. Rats: Rats are known to be intelligent. They dream like humans, learn their names, and come when called. Rats have been found to make decisions based on what they do or what they don’t know.
6. Crows: They are capable of solving complex problems despite having a brain about the size of a human thumb. It has been discovered that they can recognize human faces.
7. Dogs: Dogs are the only other animals besides chimpanzees that scientists think are more human. They are considered smart by most people due to their ability to obey orders. Dogs have feelings, learn tricks, recognize their owners, and can sense the feelings of others
8. Pigeons: Studies show that pigeons are capable of learning abstract mathematical rules and are in fact the only non-humans other than rhesus monkeys with this particular ability. They are also able to recognize individuals, most likely by their facial features.
9. Pigs: Scientists have found that pigs have excellent long-term memories, can easily solve mazes and understand simple symbolic language.
10. Octopuses: Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate. It has about 130 million neurons in its brain. Each of his arms has its own mind and can do things for itself when cut off.
11. Raccoons: Ethologist HB David conducted a bizarre study in 1908 that showed that raccoons could pick complex locks in less than 10 attempts, even after the locks were rearranged or turned upside down. Other studies from the 1960s to 1990s found that raccoons also had impeccable memories and could recall solutions to problems up to three years old.
12. Honeybees: The chiefs of “swarm intelligence.” “You can have up to 50,000 workers in a colony, coming together to make democratic decisions. When things get too crowded in a certain location, they dance to decide where to have the colony build their next hive.
The new generation of army in the video above is further proof that animals are not that different from humans. They have the ability to learn and follow commands. Kudos also goes to the shepherd who was patient enough to get such a diverse group of animals to cooperate and participate in the parade.