Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

✍ Scribed by Pilley, John W

• Book ID: 107492583
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780544102576

✦ Synopsis

The amazing story of a very smart Border collie who is redefining animal intelligence.

Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of themmore than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball, and tree, she has memorized the names of more than one thousand toys and can retrieve any of them on command. Based on that learning, she and her owner and trainer, retired psychologist John Pilley, have moved on to further impressive feats, demonstrating her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar and to learn new behaviors by imitation.

John's ingenuity and tenacity as a researcher are as impressive as Chaser's accomplishments. His groundbreaking approach has opened the door to a new understanding of animal intelligence, one that requires us to reconsider what actually goes on in a dog's mind. Chaser's achievements reveal her use of deductive reasoning and complex problem-solving...