NOVA - How Smart are dogs?
Program Description
New discoveries are revealing that “man’s best friend” is smarter than we ever thought, with a brain that resembles our own in ways we never imagined. Travel to Wolf Park, where scientists are tracing the evolutionary path that turned wild animals into our cuddly companions, and meet a superdog with a vocabulary of over 1,000 words.
Researchers are using dogs to better understand how the human brain works and reference early childhood education.
As a dog person, I can say I reflexively used the same words, thought processes and techniques with my child as a toddler that I did with the dogs. LOL—it worked!