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title: "#Intelligent Animals & Superpower Traits (6 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki"
description: "Demonstrating problem-solving skills, spatial memory, and complex learned traditions passed across generations. Explore all 6 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia."
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# #Intelligent Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations

> Demonstrating problem-solving skills, spatial memory, and complex learned traditions passed across generations.

- **Trait Category**: Behavior & Tactics
- **Species Count**: 6 Curated Creatures
- **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/intelligent/)

## Species With #Intelligent

- [American Crow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/american-crow/) (*Corvus brachyrhynchos*)
  - **Superpower**: Learns a threatening face and passes the lesson on to other crows
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Bikini Kill (90s Riot Grrrl & Grunge)
- [Asian Elephant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-elephant/) (*Elephas maximus*)
  - **Superpower**: A trunk with about 150,000 muscle units and tendons
  - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Peter Frampton (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Common Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-cuttlefish/) (*Sepia officinalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Camouflage built from about 30 skin pattern components, shape-shifting papillae muscles, and polarized vision that may help it see through other animals' camouflage.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Deftones (90s Alt-Metal & Shoegaze)
- [Common Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-octopus/) (*Octopus vulgaris*)
  - **Superpower**: Skin patterns carried out by over half a million neurons in the chromatophore lobes of its brain
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Robyn (2010s Pop & Electropop)
- [Grey Parrot](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/grey-parrot/) (*Psittacus erithacus*)
  - **Superpower**: One bird, Griffin, outperformed 5-year-olds on a cup-logic test
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Endangered
  - **Soundtrack**: Bobby McFerrin (Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion)
- [Spotted Hyena](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spotted-hyena/) (*Crocuta crocuta*)
  - **Superpower**: Jaws that crush bone with ease, in a skull that helps spread the stress of a bite.
  - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Death Grips (Industrial Hip-Hop & Experimental Noise)

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