Brain Junk

Who is the brightest, the most likely to crush the SAT, the one pet who has the brains to out think them all? Is it your cat or your dog?SHOW NOTES:Who is smarter?Dogs (The lovely Ruby would agree)Or cats?Leap and Haku are too sleepy to care.Show Notes:Science Alert Cats vs DogsStudy done by neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel from Vanderbilt University in the US.Spoiler alert!It’s dogs. Episode TranscriptWelcome to Brain Junk, I’m Trace Kerr and I’m Amy Barton. And this is a Brain Storm. AB: I’m curious for your answer. TK: Okay. AB: You have cats and dog. TK: Yes. AB: Which one is smarter? TK: Uh, that really kind of diff between the two of us. AB: We would need an operational definition of smart. TK: Well yeah, I know cause I’m like, I know, that’s exactly what I just did there. Well I would have to say that from a training standpoint, dogs are easier because you know, I’ve trained a dog and cats. I don’t know. I mean somebody who lays around it as absolutely nothing and gets human beings to do everythi