Posted on 01/01/2016 7:11:33 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
LOL...probably because Leonard’s vocalizations are the closest to canine of any singer I have ever heard! LOL!
(Aussies and BCs are neck’n’neck the smartest doggies on the planet!)
Yeah, I was thinking that same thing. Must be a lullaby for dogs!!
have to admit to wondering this myself on more than one occasion.
I wonder if the study would have had different results if it wasn't using still photos but maybe video or viewing dogs/not-dog through a one-way window. There's a concept called predatory drift (which does have some disagreement on it in the dog science community but it seems reasonable enough to me) where basically the movement and sound of a small dog in the heat of the moment seems so much like prey to a larger, prey-driven dog that the instinct to chase and catch kind of overrides the realization that its another dog and not a rabbit. Its usually talked about in the context of dogs like Greyhounds and Huskies, dogs that aren't normally aggressive to other dogs but are bred to chase. So a greyhound on a leash walking down the street who sees a Chihuahua on a leash walking down the street in a normal dog-walking way recognizes the Chi as a dog and reacts the same to it as he would to a Lab walking by. But put that same Greyhound in a dog park where dogs are loose running around and the Chi darts past from out of a bush and the Greyhound's prey instinct kicks in and he goes after the Chi so fast that the he never processes that its a dog.
To paraphrase Louis Wu, The pockets of the taxpayer are bottomless.
I had a Golden Retriever who found my cat perfectly acceptable (in fact he was very cautious around her) but should a neighboring cat dart across the yard, he’d be off on a mad chase. He never caught one however, and I’m not sure what he’d have done, if he had. I imagine it would not be pretty.
One of my daughter’s dogs is a pit / mountain cur mix (we think - she is a rescue).
VERY fast. And obsessed with squirrels. She caught one recently. It was kind of funny. She crunched it at once and then looked up with this “now what do I do?” look.
I think animal intelligence is much, much greater than usually thought.
But it is only recently we have been able to discern and “variate” it.
Of course, dogs know other dogs.
Heck, birds know other birds.
Cows know other cows.
On and on.
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