http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2372125.ece

Don't laugh too hard. The monkeys from Lopburi actually take the train, in gangs of the hairy critters, to other provinces to scavenge for food, steal stuff and fight with opposing monkey gangs, and return to Lopburi the same way. Clever little buggers.

Animals can be so clever...

Don't laugh too hard. The monkeys from Lopburi actually take the train, in gangs of the hairy critters, to other provinces to scavenge for food, steal stuff and fight with opposing monkey gangs, and return to Lopburi the same way. Clever little buggers.

They infest the UK rail network in much the same way. You get in trouble for calling them monkeys' though. :D

Regards.

Smart Pups.

They are far more productive than many an englishman I've seen these past few years. So Many Dole scroungers.

Don't laugh too hard. The monkeys from Lopburi actually take the train, in gangs of the hairy critters, to other provinces to scavenge for food, steal stuff and fight with opposing monkey gangs, and return to Lopburi the same way. Clever little buggers.

Tip to make a documentary for animal planet, love to see that.

Betsy the dog was featured in an article on animal intelligence in the National Geographic magazine.

The entire article can be read here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/...nia-morell-text

The article starts out with the amazing story of a parrot that not only makes sentences but creates new words out of words he already knows.

But here is the part about the smart dog

However, I suggest that you read the entire article. Its quite eye-opening.

Betsy—has a vocabulary of more than 300 words.

"Even our closest relatives, the great apes, can't do what Betsy can do—hear a word only once or twice and know that the acoustic pattern stands for something," said Juliane Kaminski, a cognitive psychologist who worked with Rico and is now studying Betsy. She and her colleague Sebastian Tempelmann had come to Betsy's home in Vienna to give her a fresh battery of tests. Kaminski petted Betsy, while Tempelmann set up a video camera.

Betsy's owner—whose pseudonym is Schaefer—summoned Betsy, who obediently stretched out at Schaefer's feet, eyes fixed on her face. Whenever Schaefer spoke, Betsy attentively cocked her head from side to side.

Kaminski handed Schaefer a stack of color photographs and asked her to choose one. Each image depicted a dog's toy against a white background—toys Betsy had never seen before. They weren't actual toys; they were only images of toys. Could Betsy connect a two-dimensional picture to a three-dimensional object?

Schaefer held up a picture of a fuzzy, rainbow-colored Frisbee and urged Betsy to find it. Betsy studied the photograph and Schaefer's face, then ran into the kitchen, where the Frisbee was placed among three other toys and photographs of each toy. Betsy brought either the Frisbee or the photograph of the Frisbee to Schaefer every time.

"It wouldn't have been wrong if she'd just brought the photograph," Kaminski said. "But I think Betsy can use a picture, without a name, to find an object. Still, it will take many more tests to prove this."

You can't have a thread about smart dogs without mentioning Red Dog.

This dog became a legend in the north-west of Western Australia where he spent his life travelling great distances by hitching rides on road trains and buses purportedly seeking his dead master. He would travel many thousands of kilometres, apparently even getting to Perth on one trip. He always returned to Dampier.

He is the subject of at least one book, several poems and has a statue erected at the outskirts of his home town.

"RED DOG"

THE PILBARA WANDERER

The stories this old dog could tell,if only he could say.

Would add a page in history,forever and a day.

But still he will be remembered,by those who knew his way.

The Red Dog of the Pilbara from the north of

Western Australia."

Red Dog (wikipedia)

A dog doesn't have anything on a chimp. BTW a poodle is the smartest dog.

A dog doesn't have anything on a chimp. BTW a poodle is the smartest dog.

So your mama also cried for lassie?

A dog doesn't have anything on a chimp. BTW a poodle is the smartest dog.

yes, but the dog is much cuter

(sorry sibey)

That's one cute pooch, sbk.

Beat's the heck out of this one.

The lights are on but nobody's home......duh, which way did he go ?

I agree.

That is Betsy, the smart dog from the National Geographic article

Dogs are like people, some are smart, some are kinda stupid and lots are in between

I've always held the view that the majority of bitzers are more intelligent than pures.

That's because their mothers had more "life experience".

I've only ever had two mixed in the past (as against a large numer of pures over the years). Both of the mixed dogs were clearly more intelligent than the pures. The current one sometimes astounds me with its intelligence. (Glad she doesn't play chess...)