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> We've taken a species, the wolf, and made it smarter In what universe is a dog smarter than a wolf? I think you got the correlation between animal domestica
by Radim 5y ago
> We've taken a species, the wolf, and made it smarter
In what universe is a dog smarter than a wolf?
I think you got the correlation between animal domestication and their intelligence backward :)
- jaked122 5y agoYeah, but have you tried getting a wolf to guard a sheep? \They're nowhere near as clever at that
- Radim 5y agoAnd have you tried getting a dolphin to guard a sheep? :-) Yet dolphins are generally acknowledged to be smarter than either a dog or a wolf! In other words, maybe guarding sheep is not the hallmark of intelligence.