Smartest dog in the world

[Panthers_Lover]

Wofford College researchers Dr. John Pilley and Dr. Alliston Reid, nd Chaser, the smartest dog in the world, made the New York Times! This story appears on the cover of the Science Times section this morning in the print version, and was posted on the Web last night. Be sure to mark Feb. 9 to watch her in action on NOVA Science NOW.

Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl!

By NICHOLAS WADE

New York Times

Published: January 17, 2011

Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 proper nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language.

Chaser belongs to John W. Pilley, a psychologist who taught for 30 years at Wofford College, a liberal arts institution in Spartanburg. In 2004, after he had retired, he read a report in Science about Rico, a border collie whose German owners had taught him to recognize 200 items, mostly toys and balls. Dr. Pilley decided to repeat the experiment using a technique he had developed for teaching dogs, and he describes his findings in the current issue of the journal Behavioural Processes.

To read the full article, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18dog.html?_r=2&ref=science.

Of course, Wofford is very proud!

[Bruce]

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