Readers Howl Over an Insult to Canine Intelligence
Doesn’t digging a hole in the same spot each day, with great precision, until told to stop, suggest exceptional cognitive ability?
The new issue of the scientific journal Learning and Behavior includes a paper by researchers who studied dog intelligence—and concluded that dogs are not as smart as popularly believed. “There is no current case for canine exceptionalism,” the authors wrote, a line that drew swift rebuke from the canine-loving community in letters to the esteemed journal.
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