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World' S Smartest Dog 1 000 Words - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 25th Dec, 2010 - 1:01am
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World's Smartest Dog Knows More Than 1,000 Words
Seems unreal? Probably but this cute doggie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items, more than any other animal in the world.
QUOTE If you thought Rover or Sparky was smart, think again: Chaser just took him to school.
A border collie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items -- more than any other animal, even the legendary Alex the parrot. But it's all in a day's work for these researchers.
Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three years.
"We put in a lot of work on it," Pilley said in a conversation with FoxNews.com. While border collies are an especially smart breed, he said, the research doesn't allow them to conclusively call it smarter than, say, pit bulls or dachshunds.
"We can't say anything definitive about this, but there is agreement among breeders," he said, citing decades of breeding for herding that makes the dogs particularly attuned to learning words. "The hypothesis is that they do have a special propensity to language, they listen to the farmer...
A border collie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items -- more than any other animal, even the legendary Alex the parrot. But it's all in a day's work for these researchers.
Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three years.
"We put in a lot of work on it," Pilley said in a conversation with FoxNews.com. While border collies are an especially smart breed, he said, the research doesn't allow them to conclusively call it smarter than, say, pit bulls or dachshunds.
"We can't say anything definitive about this, but there is agreement among breeders," he said, citing decades of breeding for herding that makes the dogs particularly attuned to learning words. "The hypothesis is that they do have a special propensity to language, they listen to the farmer...
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Post Date: 25th Dec, 2010 - 1:01am / Post ID: #
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I've seen this dog in action before on Animal Planet, and she is a really smart dog. Border Collies can understand more than just words. Farmers would usually teach their Border Collies different pitches of whistles and other such methods for herding.
Some scientists have argued that Border Collies are about as smart as dolphins.
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