Title: Fidogate: Listen To Obama Brag About Eating Dog Source:
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From chapter 18 of the audio book "Dreams Of My Father" as recited by the author, President Barack Obama.
Poster Comment:
Muslims don't eat dog, Bill Ayers and Obama are lying again.
Baking and eating dog here has fallen out of fashion in North America, but it is a meat that is fair game elsewhere. So President Obama ate dog as an indigenous dish in an Asian country.
This is no big deal. To say the least. I would never give anyone shit about that. Unless it involved eating people or sme incredibly intelligent creature, which a dog is not.
I'll always give you fairly intelligent, but not extremely. I've always been interested in this question of intelligence and animals like the human and other great apes, or dolphins and whales.
I like dogs, and had several while growing up. They were all smart as dogs go, and I was never tempted to eat any that passed away. ;-)
"The diff comes when a child figures out that you're pointing at an object."
Dogs actually are so in sync with humans they recognize the finger pointing and will look when larger brained primates not so acclimated to us will miss that meaning.
Dogs have been joined at the hip with humanity so long, what a pointed finger means has become almost intellectually known to them. I found that interesting when scientist figured that one out.
A common test of frontal lobe development is often the test of awareness that a reflection is of the observer. A dolphin one puts a paint spot on will go to a mirror nearby and look at what you did to that particular body part one painted.
Also other tests dolphins actually outdo humans in, such as the number of meaningless sounds they can repeat back in tests scoping out that capacity.
ScienceDaily (Feb. 8, 2012) Dogs are better than chimps at interpreting pointing gestures, according to a study published in the online journal PLoS ONE.
Katharina Kirchhofer, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, led a team in the investigation of 20 chimps and 32 dogs presented with the same task: retrieving an object the experimenter wanted, as indicated by the experimenter pointing. The researchers found that the dogs performed well, but the chimps failed to identify the object of interest.
These results emphasize the difference in chimp response to human gaze, which they have been shown to be good at following, versus gestures.
"The fact that chimpanzees do not understand communicative intentions of others, suggests that this may be a uniquely human form of communication. The dogs however challenge this hypothesis. We therefore need to study in more detail the mechanisms behind dogs' understanding of human forms of communication," says Dr. Kirchhofer.
Sheep dogs were better than hunting hounds, earth dogs (dogs used for underground hunting), livestock guard dogs and sled dogs at following a pointing finger. (Credit: iStockphoto/Robert Churchill)