Dr. Cliff Redford

But...

That is as much an issue of the difference between dogs and people.

It's not, you know, I can't say rough, rough, rough properly.

Yeah, I'm not sure how it would work.

So that's the problem is we think of intelligence as...

you know, our intelligence, right?

Like we build nuclear bombs, which probably shows that we're dumb.

Well, I don't.

But we're, as a society, we have planes and cars and we talk to each other on podcasts or is it a radio show?

Both, baby.

Both, baby.

But there are other forms of intelligence.

But this article became sort of,

The big news.

Way back in 2004, there was a reported case of a border collie named Rico.

And Rico knew the names of more than 200 different toys.

So big ball, little ball, teddy bear, whatever, kitty cat, whatever the toy is, he could pick out all these 200 toys.

And so researchers started to look into, well,

How is that possible?

Is it possible that he's picking up on some sort of signal from his owners or his handler that maybe even they don't know they're giving a signal to?