They can be persuasive though.
Who to ping for dogs? ping.
Well now, THIS should be a no-brainer!
if humans are the nanny state in this scenario, then dogs are just wolves on welfare.....
No brainer!
It would be interesting to see a logic test for sheep. I am guessing the sheep would obtain near identical scores with the American Liberal.
How did the chickens make out against the squab?
This does not surprise me, wolves are smarter than dogs.
Dogs are basically inbred dumbed down wolves.
That’s what domestication is, you pick the most obedient ones out of the litter. And in general, the smarter an animal is the less obedient it’s going to be.
Even the barking thing. Adult wolves do not bark, only wolf pups do. Dogs are basically wolves that are stuck in the infantile stage mentally, which is why even adult dogs bark.
I was looking for the Far Side that had one wolf near a fire with some cavemen, while other wolves at a distance say “Look at that glassy stare, those vacuous eyes... He’s been domesticated I tell you!”
They can be persuasive though.
People will probably jump to the conclusion that wolves are smarter than dogs but that’s not what this study says. In fact it points out a flaw of all such studies i.e motivation.
For dogs and babies, learning and cooperating with humans/adults is a more important (survival) task than getting “right” answers.
Any dog worthy of the name knows how to get humans to do whatever he wants them to do by using the Soft Sad Eyes, the Head Tilt /Quizzical Look, the Barely Audible Whine....Wolves, poor things, have to use their brains. Dogs , especially small cute ones, can get what they want by bending humans to their wills.
So when wolves go to socialism, they get dumber. Humans have the same results.
Sometimes the “logical” thing is to do what the “boss” seems to want, even if your own observation is contradictory.
In this case the “boss” is the human.
The dog doesn’t want to be “fired”, and doing what the “boss” wants is almost always a better choice than doing what is correct based upon your own observations.
They should have tested Border Collies...
I have an Australian Shepherd and a Border Collie. The Aussie is smart, but he wants to do exactly what I want him to do. The Border Collie is less obedient, but more goal oriented - he looks at the objective, then decides how he wants to achieve it.
In the Highlands, Border Collies are expected to get the job done while the shepherd may be out of sight, so independent reasoning is a good thing. In most American settings, the dogs are used in sight of the shepherd, so independent actions are considered bad.
Wolves are smarter than dogs? It’s about time they kill all the pitbulls.
my bad