Have you ever had such an experience? You were lying on the sofa watching TV or playing with your mobile phone, and then you saw your cat licking its fur on the table, gradually sliding down from it and landing with a puzzled face. "What just happened?" Or your dog bit its tail and knocked over the trash can on the ground and ran to you like a treasure.

You only had one thought at that time: how did I raise such a stupid cat/dog?

But what Lao Wang wants to say is: in fact, your pet is much smarter than you think. They pretend to be stupid and cute just to relax your guard.

The Cat from Outer Space

First, how to determine the intelligence of cats and dogs?

The question of whether cats are smarter or dogs are smarter has been debated endlessly in the field of shovel officials. Although dogs are smarter and louder, how to judge whether cats or dogs are smart?

1, from a biological point of view

According to foreign media reports, scientists compared the brains of cats, dogs, lions, brown bears, raccoons and other animals, and published the research results in the journal Frontier of Neuroanatomy.

The results show that there are about 530 million neurons in the cerebral cortex of dogs and 250 million neurons in cats. There are about 654.38+06 billion neurons in human cerebral cortex.

A dog resting on its stomach

Therefore, the dog's brain can process more information and has stronger cognitive ability than the cat's brain.

If we use the encephalization index (the relationship constant between body weight and brain weight), it is usually used to estimate the intelligence level of an organism. The average index of people is about 7.4-7.5, that of dogs is about 1.2, and that of cats is about 1.0. This result shows another thing from another angle: cats are smart, smarter than they look.

2. From the perspective of socialization

Socialization refers to: obedience, command recognition and so on. In this respect, cats are even less dominant … because they have only themselves in their world …

I only have my own cat in my eyes

Scientists have done this experiment with cats and dogs respectively;

There are two cups in front of the experimenter. One has a reward in it and the other is empty. Which cup people point to, and animals choose the same cup, they can get rewards.

The result is very obvious. Dogs can quickly understand human gestures, but cats …

The cat owner goes to the laboratory first. "What is this place? It's different from my home … I'm so scared and crazy … "and then I don't cooperate at all …

I refused.

The experimenter can only put the experiment in the cat owner's house, and then, only some cats are willing to cooperate, and most cats will ignore the experimenter even more when they get home.

But those cats who are willing to cooperate with the experiment behave almost like dogs.

So dogs are more social. However, it also proves that cats can understand their owners' intentions! Just to see if it is willing to respond to you ... (It sounds pitiful to the shovel officer ...)

I know, but I don't respond.

3. Other test methods

Sorry, it didn't work … because you never know what cats will do in the experiment.

There was an experiment: the experimenter put the cat in a maze, and then the cat began to lick its hair in a dead end ... Although Lao Wang knew it was a nervous reaction of the cat, the experimenter's heart collapsed ...

Cat Mimi hides in the box.

So to sum up, most dogs are smarter than cats, mainly because dogs are more obedient and more cooperative with experiments …