Brain body ratio has NEVER been proven to be a measure of smarts.

It only came about when humans realized other animals like Whales had far larger brains than humans.

for all we know lizards could be speaking in ultrasonic code about how they have tamed us to feed them worms.

We have NO idea what makes a brain smart and whether that has anything to do with brain size.
Put it this way.
Birds, dogs, and cats can all learn to understand what we say to them.

What human has learned to understand any of them says?

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Talk to me when this lizard asks you "where are you going?" as you grab your keys. And when you come back does it ask "did you bring me cookies?".

This is great, but I for one am not surprised. Humans have long been arrogant in thinking that they are "smarter" than any other creature. But in order to survive, all creatures have to have skills to find food, be safe from predators, reproduce, etc. By singled-minded superior "thinking" that birds, fish, other mammals are not bright, we are setting ourselves up for being the "dumb"ones. It is a shame that this erroneous human belief has led to the mass destruction of animals, their habitat and certainly annihilated species on a regular basis like the dodo bird.
The diversity of the planet is in our hands. One of the skills that we do have is the ability to choose between destroying things and sustaining them. We should use our power wisely. Perhaps be cause the little lizards are showing how "smart" they are, they will have more value in our human view

Great story and I always enjoy it when new science shows us how wrong old science is, how so many of our perceptions about nature are not accurate. Good work. but what is with the "humans less distinct" comment. probably I understand what you mean but it smacks of something sad when really, cognition among our animal relations is a great thing.

Day one: Human notices that an anole has jumped into a captive skink bin, presumably to eat crickets there. Human removes anole before skinks eat it, and puts it on the ledge over the skink bin. Anole runs away.

Day two: Human finds anole in skink bin again, removes anole, and puts a cricket on the ledge over the skink bin. Anole pauses for a minute, then eats the cricket.

Day three: Human finds anole sitting on ledge over the skink bin, and puts a cricket on the ledge to keep the anole from jumping into the skink bin after crickets.

Days four and beyond: Human feeds the anole on the ledge first, then the skinks in the bin.

True story, but who trained who? lol

There is an interesting video on the internet right now that shows a turtle righting a flipped over fellow reptile. It demonstrated to me that the turtle was capable of problem solving and empathy.