Blog 8: Animal Thinking

              For this post, i studied animal behavior and read about the Anthropomorphism article posted in on the homepage. I think that goes hand in hand with the videos i watched on dog behavior. Throughout the study of the dogs behavior, they tend to be smarter than the average human even though they are taught simple commands by humans. One in particular example of this is in one of the videos, Neil DeGrasse Tyson tested the intelligence of one of the worlds smartest dogs in a memorization exercise. the dog was to find the stuffed animal Tyson calls by name and the dog ends up doing so. to further prove the hypothesis was indeed a fact, Tyson included a new stuffed animal that the dog has never seen or heard of before and was told to find it. After sometime passes, the dog eventually finds the stuffed animal. An argument could be made that there could have been some help from the owner or a person nearby but after showing the cameras on the side of where the stuffed animals were, the dog had made the best guess of what the stuffed animal had to look like. Due to Anthropomorphism, domestic pets exhibit such behavior that make them more superior among other animals.