{"id":4867,"date":"2019-07-29T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:26:54","slug":"good-dog-goodbye-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/good-dog-goodbye-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Dog! Goodbye, Dog&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/27\/science\/chaser-border-collie-dies.html?searchResultPosition=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is reporting<\/a> the death of Chaser, a dog who changed the way we think about canine cognition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AdobeStock_113963054_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4869\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AdobeStock_113963054_Credit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AdobeStock_113963054_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AdobeStock_113963054_Credit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AdobeStock_113963054_Credit-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We used to think that dogs could learn a handful of words, especially if they got treats afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Chaser learned over 1000 words &#8212; yes, 1000. And, she learned them not because she got treats, but because she enjoyed playing.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, Chaser learned not only nouns, but verbs. Even prepositions!<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows one of Chaser&#8217;s most impressive challenges. In it, Neil DeGrasse Tyson lays down several toys that Chaser already knows. He also adds a new toy: a stuffed image of Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>What will Chaser do when Tyson asks her to &#8220;get Darwin&#8221;? Will she be able to figure out that the\u00a0<em>name<\/em> she hasn&#8217;t <em>heard<\/em> before goes with the\u00a0<em>toy<\/em> she hasn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>seen<\/em> before?<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=omaHv5sxiFI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is reporting the death of Chaser, a dog who changed the way we think about canine cognition. We used to think that dogs could learn a handful of words, especially if they got treats afterwards. Chaser learned over 1000 words &#8212; yes, 1000. And, she learned them not because she got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}