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20101223

World’s Smartest Dog Knows 1,022 Words


A border collie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items — more than any other animal, even the legendary Alex the parrot. But it’s all in a day’s work for these researchers. Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn. More

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow

Carol said...

Dog reading a book funny.

Anonymous said...

But can he spell?

Anonymous said...

My dog only knows about 5 words.

Jackie said...

My dog knows a word. Wuff.

Carlos said...

My dog knows two words. Wuff wuff. Ha ha.