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I personally would expect something like that:

Here's the ranking list that I came up with after some thoughts.  
Please don't debate me on Likability, it's just my subjective view on how likable the animals are.  

Strength Ranking (1 = strongest)

1. Sperm Whale

2. Brachiosaurus

3. Tyrannosaurus Rex

4. African Savanna Elephant

5. Woolly Mammoth

6. Orca

7. Chimpanzee

8. Orangutan

9. Bonobo

10. Dog

Intelligence Ranking (1 = most intelligent)

1. Chimpanzee

2. Bonobo

3. Orangutan

4. Dog

5. Orca

6. African Savanna Elephant

7. Woolly Mammoth

8. Tyrannosaurus Rex

9. Sperm Whale

10. Brachiosaurus

Likeability Ranking (1 = most liked)

1. Dog

2. Orca

3. African Savanna Elephant

4. Woolly Mammoth

5. Sperm Whale

6. Brachiosaurus

7. Orangutan

8. Bonobo

9. Chimpanzee

10. Tyrannosaurus Rex
    

@AmmonLam dogs are not more intelligent than orcas or elephants, and whales are incredibly more intelligent than they’ve been placed, but doesn’t really affect the result. I do take some issue with orca over elephant on likability though.

Elephants currently have a quarter million put towards conservation, orcas have about 1.6M which is under a broader whale fund (this is cursory surface level research)

@AmmonLam an elephant never forgets.

@AmmonLam fun market thanks for running it!

@AmmonLam great market! Orcas 🥰

@AmmonLam Dog is more intelligent than Orca? Interesting, never heard about dogs solving puzzles, having language dialects, and ability for abstract thinking (like humans)

Additionally why you assume Sperm Whale is so stupid? They are smart enough to have language (elephants and dogs don't have language abilities)

@ChangAnthony I just looked it up, and I didn't realize how much grammar whale communication is thought to involve! I sort of thought their communication was similar to other animals, just with more range and a greater vocabulary, but I guess they probably do have actual language! very cool

@Magnify it would affect the result - orca 50% and whale 50%

@The_Nth_unique_trader well it depends how exactly you did the swap. Simply swapping whale and dog I think actually think leads to whale total victory, when I wrote that I imagined just dunking dog down to just above dinos.

This is a super weirdly subjective market though, and after seeing the subjective results trying to influence them after the fact feels odd.

Any plans to resolve?

I believe orcas finally win,

and 2026 is the year of these smartest, cutest giants:

the year when we discovered that some creatures are as smart as we are.

Maybe we are not the most intelligent creatures on this planet after all.

@Areal hit me with this when something else builds a particle accelerator 😂

@Magnify I will bet you are not able to build a particle accelerator, neither absolute most of humans

@Areal A valve is a particle accelerator, can probably build one.

@Areal so you need to dig a large tunnel, insulated and pulled to near vacuum, then you need to fling atomic particles towards eachother suspended in a magnetic field. You do this until a collision occurs within the detector area. Shockingly simply concept.

Alternately, flinging two rocks down a tube achieves the same result on a larger scale (though the scientific benefit of this is exhausted at this point).

We humans all have our individual strengths. Call me when an animal writes a line of code, writes or even reads a book, plays chess, flies an airplane, or even like, builds something with hammers nails and screwdrivers.

We dwarf the fuck out of anything else to such a degree it’s incomprehensible.

@Magnify No single human, nor any group of humans, not even an entire generation - can achieve "l a collision occurs" from scratch.

how many orcas or whales exist? how many generations orcas need to achieve similar.. They need to evolve writing over generations to start))

@Areal we build on the successes of the past, this is true. There is no animal that can build on the successes of humans. The closest would be raccoons that survive on our successes, but no animal has taken any of our creations and improved it markedly.

Beavers and ants are close, but the difference is their intelligence is narrow, limited to dams and hills. Human intelligence is general and broad, this is the key of what I’m getting to.

@Magnify Rats, bed bugs, and cockroaches frequently outmaneuver humans, not through intelligence, but through extreme fertility and fast generations.

@Magnify If intelligence is measured by how creators can recreate an ideal environment for themselves to achieve higher density within the same ecosystem, then ants, or even plants - deserve attention.

Plants, in particular, reshaped the entire planet: they colonized land by creating layers of soil, retaining minerals, and maintaining moisture.

@Areal no they don’t outmaneuver and even if they did it’s not a sign of their intelligence. Most of the time we don’t kill them is because of other humans stopping them for environmental reasons (laws regarding pesticides etc). If humans were truly motivated, do you think we couldn’t extinct any of those species? It would be something we could largely do within a generation pretty easily.

You aren’t understanding what I mean when I talk about general creation. A calculator creates numbers, plants create oxygen, but if any of those were too numerous they would actually kill the environment for themselves (hence biodiversity, lack of plants killed the dinosaurs and too many plants reduced the carbon available for themselves to consume).

Humans have something called general intelligence, the ability to put the mind towards basically anything. Animals cannot do this. Their goals and scope is always limited to what’s in front of their face.

@creator eta on resolution? a fair chunk of my liquidity is tied up here. happy holidays nonetheless!

Sperm whale ftw

Can you resolve or reopen