The Intelligence of Dogs: Canine Consciousness and CapabilitiesCoren examines the mental abilities of dogs, including memory, the ability to understand human language, and emotion, as well as how the varios breeds differ in intelligence. |
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User Review - auntieknickers - LibraryThingThis book was quite helpful in understanding a little bit more about my wild and crazy English Springer Spaniel. Supposedly his breed's intelligence is in the second rank (still quite bright but not ... Read full review
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User Review - gypsysmom - LibraryThingI probably should have read this book 13 years ago when we first acquired my border collie, Gypsy. As Coren repeatedly mentions border collies are one of the most intelligent dogs. But that very ... Read full review
Contents
Do Dogs Think? | 1 |
The Natural History of Dogs | 17 |
Early Views of the Dogs Mind | 43 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Intelligence of Dogs: Canine Consciousness and Capabilities |
| Author | Stanley Coren |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Aug 2009 |
| ISBN | 0029066832, 9780029066836 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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