- an orangutan that uses water to float a peanut to the top of a tube in order to reach it;
- a European jay that learns to use pebbles to raise the water level in a tube in order to get to a floating morsel of food (a skill that evades humans until about the age of seven) in no time at all;
- a California dog that has taught itself to skateboard, with little or no human intervention;
- an Alaska chickadee that solves food-finding problems that a cosseted southern chickadee from Kansas has no clue where to start on;
- a night heron that has the foresight to use bread to fish with rather than just to eat;
- a pair of dolphins that learn to perform synchronized creative routines on the fly;
- an African grey parrot that has been taught to distinguish a huge variety of different letters, numbers, shapes, colours, etc, and to verbalize them;
- a chimpanzee in Japan that can play computer number games, and can easily memorize a random set of 9 numbers and screen positions in just 60 milliseconds, a feat no human can even come close to.
UPDATE
It turns out that the "series" actually comprises just two episodes, and the second of them is much less interesting and mind-blowing than the first.
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