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Dog smarts: testing dog intelligence
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Poodles are more than just pretty faces, they’re very smart
Does your dog watch TV? My Jack Russell Honey certainly does - she freaked completely recently during a show which featured crocodiles.
Now researchers are testing dogs’ cognitive abilities.
Dogs Taught to Use Computers in Austrian Study reports: “In this test, the dogs had to choose between a dog-on-landscape image and a landscape-only photo. Good doggies: They aced the test, selecting the images that included dogs.
The results indicate, according to the authors, the dogs were able to form a concept of a ‘dog.’ Whether the dogs recognized the pup pictures as actual dogs, however, is an unknown.”
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