Dog Intelligence by Niki2

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Dog Intelligence

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 08:27
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 8:27 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I saw this on Nat Geo Wild the other day, and was fascinated. The story was about dog intelligence, and has some really interesting things on it:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/videos/dog-genius/#

It was a one-hour episode; if you have the time, I highly recommend it. Unfortunately the best parts start halfway through, but there's no "bar" you can move to get there. So I did find short versions, if you don't want to sit through the whole thing. The weirdest thing was at the end:

Reeeely weird...they can't figure out why he does this, but I wish they could!

I tracked down another part of what I saw, about how dogs watch us--especially our eyes--to get cues:

And this, which is similar to the part of the NatGeoWild episode I saw (but with a different voiceover) about how dogs wag either to the left or right, depending on what they're confronting:

Located this one, about dogs "fast mapping"--most of us know about the dogs that can choose a toy from over 200 toys, but the actual fast mapping starts at 2:53:

I couldn't find the other videos, but they were fascinating; about dogs' ears and hearing; "odor layering", wherein dogs discriminate between scents which allows them to track (to us, a stew smells like a stew, but to a dog, it smells like carrots, meat, potatoes AND EACH SPICE!); and lots more. I think the dog folk among us would find the long version really interesting, and again, a change from political infighting.

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