Teacher´s name: Gabriela Palomino
Student: Sheyla Chuquiano Reyes
Course: ARW2
In Extreme perception and animal intelligence written by Temple Grandin and Catherine
Johnson, they discuss what intelligence is and if animals are.
The first thing is to define what intelligence is, it says is using extreme perception to invent
jobs recognizing something and then deciding to act. There are two cases. The first case is
about dogs in two different categories. The first is seizure respond dogs, they react in the
moment the seizure is happening. The second is seizure alert dog, they apparently predict
what is going to happen before it starts. There is a controversy because the text also says that
all dogs are trained to respond to a seizure but not a seizure alert, it means that seizure
respond dog becomes into seizure alert dog by themselves. There is an example about Connie
Standley, who live in Florida and has two dogs, she says that her dogs can predict a seizure 30
minutes before it starts. A signal whose dogs do when something is happening is bark at her or
drags her to a safe place so she isn´t harmed.
All dogs are trained with some behaviors to help their owners, they have perceptual abilities to
solve a problem.
The second case is about Clever Hans which is a horse. His own think that he could count but a
psychologist, Oskar Pfungst, says the contrary. Oskar says that Hans only could say the answer
if he looks the person who is asking him, that´s because human do unconscious movements
that only animals can see. When the person who was asking him moved to another place
where Hans can´t see him, he couldn´t respond anything.
But maybe you´re thinking what does Hans have to do with dogs? They have a similarity, it´s
that they acquired their abilities without human help. They trained by themselves. These
abilities made them to be unique.
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