Chaser (dog)
| Chaser | |
|---|---|
| Species | Dog |
| Breed | Border Collie |
| Sex | Female |
| Born | Chaser |
| Nation from | American |
| Title | The Smartest Dog In The World |
Chaser is a Border Collie dog with the largest tested memory of any non-human animal.[1][2] She can identify 1,022 toys by their name and retrieve them. She was taught by retired psychologist John Pilley, with the formal research published in Behavioral Processes written by Alliston Reid and John Pilley, both of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.[2]
See also
- Betsy, a border collie known to understand over 340 words
- Rico was a border collie dog who made the news after being studied by animal psychologist Juliane Kaminski from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig after his owners reported that he understood more than 200 simple words.
- Koko, a gorilla who learned sign language
- Alex, an African grey parrot known for intelligent use of speech
- Dog intelligence
- Animal cognition
References
- ↑ Nicholas Wade (January 27, 2011). "Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl!". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-01-18.
Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Smartest Dog". Popular Science. December 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
Psychologist John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so he taught Chaser the names of 1,022 toys, one by one, for three years. New Scientist reports that he got her to fetch the toy and then he repeated the name to reinforce her understanding.