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The more neurons, the more capacity for thinking, tasks and intelligence, right? Sure, but to do what? Animals are smart enough to survive in the world they live in.
If one animal can use tools, another animal picks up on your emotions, and a third picks up on your hand motions, well, which is smarter? Another researcher checked to see if pets would look at something you pointed at and figure out you wanted them to look at it; dogs, for sure, did, but—surprise! It turns out that veterinarians who've spent years looking at domestic cats have opinions about how smart and special your feline friends are.
Remember, these veterinarians are a little biased like you , because they love all the ways that cats show preference, cleverness, and connection with people. Don't read this story about a senior dog hovering around her owner's graveside if you don't want to cry. But if we're talking about hunting in the wild, cats win. Does your cat need you around to go hunting when he wants to snatch bugs, lizards, birds, and other small animals?
But cats' famed aloofness extends even to the laboratory, Grimm says, and researchers' attempts to cajole cats into giving up a glimpse into their minds are blocked by cats' preferences to just be doing something else.
So far, the research on cat and dog cognition has confirmed what pet owners already know: dogs are attentive and responsive and needy ; cats don't care what you want, and they don't want your help. Figuring that out, says science journalist Ed Yong , is not so simple. Testing animal cognition is a tricky business, and comparing and contrasting across species lines, especially when distinct species-specific tests are used, is fraught territory.
According to Yong, researchers are coming up with ways to test animals against each other in an apples-to-apples situation. That line of work is in its early stages, and so far they've only tested one metric—different animal's sense of self-control. Though it's obviously cats.
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