Dog research reveals a lot about people

This article on dog research tells us a lot, a lot about how humans think and design experiments. Reading the results of their experiments on how one dog can control 80 sheep, one thing jumps out. For an animal that relies most on its nose, the researchers can only come up with models that test their visual talents. Which would be okay, except -- the researchers think they have answered the question.

It is possible they have provided a glimpse of what makes sheepdogs smarter --- maybe they do rely on a visual sense which most dogs do not --- I have no idea really --- but the point is, even if their research is valid, at most, it should make us aware of the question, what part of the dogs talent is visual, and what part olfactory. The people doing this research are helpful in illustrating human intelligence.