THE TOP TEN most intelligent dogs – How intelligent are dogs and wolves? Which breeds are the smartest dogs today?
1st "Left for the wolves. "
In the late spring of 1902, Constable Richard Morris, the North-West Mounted Police, reported an incident dealing with the mother tongue Cree Indians and their dogs. Stationed in a community north of Lake Winnipeg, he noticed that there was a series of dogs brought into the forest. Each individual was left alone and attached to an iron stake in a chain. When he asked the reason for this, the Cree told him that the dogs were "left for the wolves."
As Constable Morris objected to this treatment, said the Cree that the dogs are not harmed by the wolves. The dogs – huskies were Ungava – Women in the heat. Male wolves without mates of their own would be attracted to females and mate with them, which in a cross puppies "Wolf Blood".
Morris said, "Oh, I see. This is so your sled dogs are bigger and stronger."
"No," said a Cree. "A Wolf henchmen can prevent our dogs in a quick dash – but our Huskies much more stamina than wolves and could have easily outlast them in a long run. Wolves make poor working dogs. "
"Then," concluded Morris, "It is because wolves are healthier."
"No, they are the same."
"Then – why?" said the Mountie.
"Up here," replied the Indian, touch the forehead.
Father Lebeaux a Missionary Oblate, said later: "The Cree people believe that if an animal is domesticated, each generation loses in intelligence. Therefore, wolves are smarter than dogs. The Indians say: "The closer the wolf, the sly dog." If it is true of domesticated Animals, which means that the civilized people say, eh? "
2nd "How smart are they?"
Our ancestors could have asked before 15,000 years ago, when she and her adopted wolf or jackal puppies played – the first dogs.
Even the Egyptians asked that question and examined their own dogs, to answer it.
The first modern attempt was by Rene Descartes, the only one step beyond the gloomy ideas of the period say that all animals were just soulless biological machines. Descartes up the narrow, human-centered theory of behaviorism that dominated until well would be the 20th Century.
For decades, behaviorists made animals – including dogs – through sterile tests in sterile laboratories, in search of mechanical results, which proved worthless.
In the middle of this mess was a sane voice: Donald Griffin, a professor of biology at the Rockefeller University, said: "Behaviorism should be abandoned, not so much because it belittles the value of live animals, but because it leads to a serious incomplete and therefore misleading picture of Reality. "
In 1953, Konrad Lorenz created 'MAN MEETS DOG a classic about canine intelligence. Written with humor, wisdom and great insight, German Nobel Prize winners almost single new methods of our study of animal behavior.
In his groundbreaking 1994 book of intelligence THE DOGS – Canine AWARE and skills, Canadian Stanley Coren, psychologist, dog trainer, "and professed dog lover, presented his controversial ranking of Dogs for Obedience Intelligence and working conditions.
Coren Rank 133 races on the # 1 … The reaction was predictable: "The poodle? He rank on a poodle my Belgian shepherd dog? "" Come on! My Samoyed is smarter than any Australian Cattle Dog! "No Papillon can-think my Lassie." "OK, maybe a poodle is smart – but … "
"Controversy begin" not to describe the reaction to "Coren's ranking."
But his observations proved to be fairly accurate. Coren was testing, of course, pure breeds. The "pure-bred Siberian Husky, for example, is not as fast as the native of northern Siberia Husky witted. This is all the more, the Alaskan Malamute. We purposely breed some of the "wolfishness" in our Pets.
3rd "Never Cry Wolf!"
In 1963, Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf appeared on the shelves. Described as "an intimate Casebook Wolf in sociology," described how Mowat, as a biologist employed by the Canadian Wildlife Service, He had spent a summer on his own, studying a pack of wolves Arctic. The book sparked considerable interest in research Wolf, who has never dimmed.
In Praise Of Wolves and GO SECRET described the wolves RD Lawrence's close experience with wolves in Canada. Dance of the Wolves by Roger describes his three Peters winter in the woods of northern Michigan. These and others have shown us the remarkable life and intelligence of the wolf.
RD Lawrence wrote: "The reality, especially in the case of wolves, means that these animals have keen intelligence, good memory, and proven ability of conscious thought. If Shawano fed his backpack, before holding a piece of chicken for himself, he demonstrated not only that he could from the experience in a profitable manner profit, but that other wolves could to do so.
"This demonstration is sufficient alone to the mechanistic theory, which asserts that evolution is discredited by genetic imprinting unthinking or automatic responses of animals to one of an enormously wide range of natural stimuli LED …
"Memory, by becoming an animal benefit from experience, plays an important role in the formulation of deliberate decisions, the better the memory, the better the animal will be able to change the Environment to adapt. "
It is the wolf's intelligence, and his big heart and loyalty that our ancient ancestors of the Northern Wolf in their families or their bring existing dogs (probably caused cross old jackal ancestry) by wolves.
Today we mix with the wolves in the sanctuary and in the wild.
And from Jack London's The Call Of The Wild on the latest film "Eight Below" have celebrated works of fiction, the wild wolf dog in Literature and in Hollywood.
"The top 10 most intelligent dogs!"
So what are the smartest dog breeds?
Taking the conclusions of the dog trainers, psychologists and researchers, and those with dogs in situations of life and death, working as police, search and rescue, and wildlife population – and the balance of the Cree wisdom: "The closer the wolf, the smarter Dog, "with the ongoing investigations of the evolution of dogs (remember, the earliest dogs were probably adopted jackal pups), here are the ten most intelligent Dogs:
1st Ungava Husky, wolf or dog
2nd German Shepherd
3rd Golden Retrievers
4th Labrador Retriever
5th Border Collie
6th Poodle
7th Dobermann
8th Papillon
9th Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
10th Alaskan Malamute
If your dog is not on this list, you can be sure it is # 11!
Brian Alan Burhoe, a cook by profession for three Decades, the author of many articles about dogs and short stories, including the free online story WOLF BLOOD A North Western in the tradition of Jack London. Many of his articles, please visit lapdog INFO Dog Breeds Training Care & literature.
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A Graduate of the Holland College Culinary Course, Brian Alan Burhoe has cooked in Atlantic Coast restaurants for over 30 years. He is a member of the Canadian Culinary Federation. Brian’s articles reflect his interests in food service, dreamstudy, imaginative literature and our best friends — our dogs. His Home Page is A CULINARY MYSTERY TOUR – A Literary Chef
