Dogs Remember More Than You Think They Are Capable Of!
Dogs have the ability to recall events or happenings even if they are of less or no importance. Who would have thought that they could remember more than you think?
A lot of research and study have been done and it has been discovered that dogs have the same mental ability like that of humans, Science Daily reports. Claudia Fugazza of MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group in Budapest, Hungary said that “the results of our study can be considered as a further step to break down artificially erected barriers between non-human animals and human." Dogs are considered clever and there are surprises when a dog and its owner shares the same kind of mental ability. Dogs are trained to do as they are told and can watch and study a person’s performance and make the same action as that person. The fact that dogs are trained to take action like humans doesn’t give a reason for their memory been like that of humans.
New York Times added that dogs tend to always lie down immediately if they are beside a mat or cloth. It means dogs are trying to show that they are not in a state to take action but just in a state of rest. Scientists have taken other experiments and have made a suggestion that Rats, Pigeons, and Chimpanzees have the same mental abilities like dogs. But Fugazza has said that there is strong evidence to back this research because dogs remember events in a more specific manner than other experiments. Jonathon D. Crystal of Indiana University said that the work on dogs could offer new researchers a new technique that could be very helpful.
According to Science Mag, Brian Hare who is a dog expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and was never even involved in the study of dogs said: “It shows that our dogs remember events much like humans do and it blows out of the water the old way that most scientists would characterize animal memory.” Dog memory isn't based on just repetitions. Parrot, whales are likely to be the next on the list to be tested probably they can also recall event or incidents in their memory.
