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Old 04-05-2008, 11:15 AM
Reaper08 Reaper08 is offline
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Re: are dogs capable of complex thoughts??

There was a recent study that tested the intelligence of dogs and they found that a dog applies deductive reasoning to solve certain problems. One of the dogs studied was a famous border collie in Germany. This dogs knows something like 350 words, were as the average dog recognizes about 200 hundred and some. Well this bordie collie can pick out any of his toys when given the name of the toy, not all that exciting, but when they hide in a new toy and tell him to get the "fish" and has never been trained to get the "fish" he searches through all his toys and brings the one he has never seen. That was a thought process only believed to be had by humans.
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