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Jun 10, 2007
"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." --Author Unknown
Dogs Think More Than We Know
Dog owners have long maintained that their pooches have a lot more going on between their furry ears than scientists acknowledge. Now, new research is adding to the growing evidence that man's best friend thinks a lot more than many humans have believed. The provocative new experiment indicated that dogs can do something that previously only humans, including infants, have been shown capable of doing: decide how to imitate a behavior based on the specific circumstances in which the action takes place." The findings come amid a flurry of research that is revealing surprisingly complex abilities among dogs, chimps, birds and many other animals long dismissed as having little intellectual or emotional life.
BE THE CHANGE
Think of an assumption you made about someone else and consider it in a new light.
