That study also says that raccoons are just as smart as dogs, and cats and bears have about the same amount of cortical neurons. I wonder how many birds have.
Except the ones that tear kids apart, or yip and go bathroom in the house, or ruin furnature/chew when you're gone...Cats are vindictive little shits to the people who provide for them.
Dogs are good boys who'll love you always.
Siamese are the closest thing to a dog in the cat world, they get very attached to their owners and will follow them foot to foot, and get anxious when you're not around. The single most loving, empathetic and purely good animal I've ever owned was a Siamese, and losing her this month was harder than losing any pet I've ever had to say goodbye to. We had a shorthand, a bond that was far deeper than any I've ever had with a dog. I was a wreck for the days before we had to have her put down, but even after she lost the use of her back legs and was immobilized, whenever I would start to lose it around her, she would meow and paw at me so I could lean down and let her nuzzle my chin and groom my beard. She refused to let me be sad.
That was her a couple hours before we had to say goodbye.
Boy, this turned into a bummer of a fucking post didn't it?
Yes. You can teach cats tricks and such.
But pigs are smarter than dogs and can also fetch you some sweetass truffles
yea I stopped eatings pigs because of this. We used to own a pot belly pig as a pet, and we had to get rid of him because our dogs would nip at him and cause him to bleed, but he would patch himself up by rolling in a mound of cotton we used to have out in the garage. Pigs are incredibly intelligent and get a bad rap, mostly because of religion.
Dogs eat their own turds. Cats know how to hide them under socks.
Same thoughts here. Unsurprising study.I mean duh. Cats are smart but dogs have abilities of reading people's faces very well and wider capabilities.
Cats have much smaller brains (25 g) than dogs (74 g), but a much higher NPD, and they therefore have almost twice as many cortical neurons (300 million) as dogs (160 million).
You can try all you want dog stans but your boring dog pictures and gifs will never mean anything on the internet.
You may be thinking of some breeds which lack genes that govern the sense of fullness.
I've got an orange Tabby that we taught to fetch. He's more obsessed with it than any dog I've ever seen. I'll hide the toy in random places, and within an hour of me getting home he'll be sitting in front of the couch with it at his feet staring at me, waiting for me to throw it. He'll fetch for a good hour solid.
It really depends on the individual animal and breed. Orange Tabbies in particular are very easygoing and adaptable, and generally about as friendly as your average golden retriever. Siamese are the closest thing to a dog in the cat world, they get very attached to their owners and will follow them foot to foot, and get anxious when you're not around. The single most loving, empathetic and purely good animal I've ever owned was a Siamese, and losing her this month was harder than losing any pet I've ever had to say goodbye to. We had a shorthand, a bond that was far deeper than any I've ever had with a dog. I was a wreck for the days before we had to have her put down, but even after she lost the use of her back legs and was immobilized, whenever I would start to lose it around her, she would meow and paw at me so I could lean down and let her nuzzle my chin and groom my beard. She refused to let me be sad.
That was her a couple hours before we had to say goodbye.
Boy, this turned into a bummer of a fucking post didn't it?
While I generally take issue with reductionist views of research (especially since intelligence is really tough to define even within a species), it's probably worth pointing out that another recent study had exactly the opposite result.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685590/#!po=11.3095
And to be honest, regardless of which one really[//I] has twice as many cortical neurons as the other, intelligence is way more complicated with that when dealing with more complex brains. It's not apples-to-apples when compare how those resources are distributed in a pack animals (who need social skills, reading cues, group coordination, etc) and individualistic animals (who need curiosity, caution, self-reliance, etc).
Focusing on a single metric can be useful but boiling a broad, many-dimensional concept like intelligence down to just that is misleading at best. It makes good headlines but it's not good science.
i'll give you 10 bucks to find outMaybe dog turds taste awesome and we're all dumb for not eating them.
Birds have quite dense levels. Their brains are small, but very capable. Particularly birds like crows, which have remarkably human brain responses at times.That study also says that raccoons are just as smart as dogs, and cats and bears have about the same amount of cortical neurons. I wonder how many birds have.
1. Raccoons are smart as fuckThat study also says that raccoons are just as smart as dogs, and cats and bears have about the same amount of cortical neurons. I wonder how many birds have.