Gifted dogs
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They weren't? What breed were they?The Border Collie was not one of the dogs in the study.
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It's not a matter of breed. I’m quoting what I read in the article.
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Oh.It's not a matter of breed. I’m quoting what I read in the article.
Faceplam.
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Some people enjoy the love and attention dogs provide.
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I'd argue that dogs are much more intelligent than cats.
Cats established a parasitic/symbiotic relationship with early humans. Your characterisation of that relationship is up to you (cat lover, vs dog lover).
Dogs established a master/slave relationship with humans. Humans related to this, and actively bred dogs to become more servile and more puppy like, and therefore more trainable.
Dogs - despite having their emotional/intellectual abilities stunted in some ways, have been bred in other ways. Bloodhounds. Shepherd dogs. Hunting dogs. A specific type of intelligence has been bred into dogs over the ages.
With cats, there is no difference between a Maine Coon and a Siamese. There is no need for cats to have been bred for intelligence. Their job (before Maine Coons and Siamese show cats) was to catch rats.
Sure, dogs also started like that but as they got specialised: rat-catcher vs bull mastiff they were selectively bred for a certain type of intelligence. Cats... not so much. Cat breeds are mostly for aesthetics.
Cats established a parasitic/symbiotic relationship with early humans. Your characterisation of that relationship is up to you (cat lover, vs dog lover).
Dogs established a master/slave relationship with humans. Humans related to this, and actively bred dogs to become more servile and more puppy like, and therefore more trainable.
Dogs - despite having their emotional/intellectual abilities stunted in some ways, have been bred in other ways. Bloodhounds. Shepherd dogs. Hunting dogs. A specific type of intelligence has been bred into dogs over the ages.
With cats, there is no difference between a Maine Coon and a Siamese. There is no need for cats to have been bred for intelligence. Their job (before Maine Coons and Siamese show cats) was to catch rats.
Sure, dogs also started like that but as they got specialised: rat-catcher vs bull mastiff they were selectively bred for a certain type of intelligence. Cats... not so much. Cat breeds are mostly for aesthetics.
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(Anecdote: I used to have a black Burmese cross x ??, and he was a clever cat. He learnt how to open doors by pulling on the door handle and throwing his weight on it. My mum had a cat who learnt to open a similar door from the inside - door pulled towards the cat)
I don't think they are thick.
But I don't think you can compare a cat to a dog.
Also the cranium of a cat is only slightly more volume than a chicken.
I don't think they are thick.
But I don't think you can compare a cat to a dog.
Also the cranium of a cat is only slightly more volume than a chicken.
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How does a human’s brain size compare to a whale? Brain size isn’t that important.
Nicholas
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I read somewhere that Homo neanderthalensis had a larger brain than Homo sapiens. Too bad it didn't prevent it from becoming extinct. [Other than interbreeding with us enough to leave a small percentage of its DNA in all but Sub-Saharan Homo sapiens.]