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Monday, March 1, 2010

The use of dogs for research purposes

It was estimated that the population of dogs in the world today has 120 to 150 million. In the United States is home to around 35 million dogs in France - 7-8, Germany - 5-6, Italy - 4, in Belgium - 1 million in Switzerland - 400 000 thousand. Not all of them easy to live. Many were thrown ungrateful masters or victims of inattentive drivers, and scientific experiments. Goethe, Schiller, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Shaw and Malaparte, along with many other philosophers, scientists and journalists were in their work against such practices. In his books, Jerome K. Jerome, O'Henry, D'Annunzio, Ada Negri, Grazia Deledda, Thomas Mann, Jack London, Katherine Mansfild, John Steinbeck, Michael Zoshchenko and Eric Knight expressed his appreciation and love for dogs.

Despite the fact that public opinion is firmly set against experiments on animals, the goats annually to 100 million animals, 100 thousand of them - the dogs. Needed less ambiguous laws and closer monitoring of the experiments, implemented in the name of science.

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  1. Dogs and year-olds have the same IQ
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    Employees of the University of British Columbia (Canada) found that even the average dog's intellectual abilities do not differ from that of two children.

    Clever dog knows 250 words and can count to five.
    Clever dog knows 250 words and can count to five.

    After several tests, scientists found that an ordinary dog can learn 165 words, including the signs and gestures. A dog with a high intelligence can memorize 250 words.

    It is noteworthy that in the arithmetic of the dogs is sometimes better time to three and four year olds and can easily take up to four and five. In social terms, the dog developed much more than children: they can be put on a par with teenagers.

    Lead author Professor Stanley Coren calls the wisest quadrupeds Boarder collies, poodles and German shepherds (in that order), which in terms of intelligence equal to 2.5-year-old children. According to scientists, it is easy to explain: the rock had been withdrawn recently and in comparison with other, more clever, as breeders were selected and crossed the best representatives of the genus.

    Next in the list of quadrupeds "intellectual" follow the golden retriever, Doberman, Sheltie (Shetland Sheepdog) and Labrador retrievers. Close the caudate dozen "wise men" hunting dogs, such as the Basset Hound, Afghan hounds, bulldogs, Bigley and Basenji.

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