My Thesis as to why Seagulls are smarter than Dogs....
 

Throw a 'pretend' ball for your dog, and he will disappear off into the distance, thinking he is going to find it...

Throw 'pretend' food for a Seagull, and it will look at you the same way as your dog, had you had shown your dog a card trick...


:2 cents:

Simply by the LGAL FACT that as my post has dropped from page 1 - WITH NO COUNER theory...

I Win - My THESIS is accepted by default :)

deserves a PhD

Birds just see better....

Clicked here expecting a joke or story about seagull poo + open-roofed cars.

Shouldn't that be theory?

What is a Thesis?
In the academic world a thesis is a formal written paper which is part of the graduation requirements for advanced degrees. It can also be called a dissertation.


What is a Theory?
A theory is an educated guess about something. If you think something is correct but haven't proven it you have a theory. Some theories are complex and others are simple

They are probably to fat and full of parking lot junk food

Thanks - So you dont disagree in that case ?

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Seagulls!

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I think he meant hypothesis

Dogs have been bread to please their owners through work and play for hundreds of years, dogs just trust their owners is all, they can smell it from a distance so your fooling them is only superficial. Example mine was pointing out a tennis ball that was under the couch last night, despite there being other balls around she wanted that one, why? that one squeaked, she did everything but vocalize what and where it was using body language. Can't do that with a shit hawk ;)

Are you and CS brothers?

I noticed this too. The gulls will often fall for it for like a millisecond at most until they realize you didn't actually throw any food. In addition it's crazy how they see any food dropped within a certain area and how fast they are at getting to it.

So your dog trusts you blindly and seagulls have eyes like a hawk?

Being that intelligence implies conscious awareness and sole measure of problem solving ability through conscious reasoning - I think it could be safely argued that neither animal is measurably intelligent. The primary difference I would guess would be the simple fact that the dog has been trained and conditioned to perform an act for a reward and trust the one providing the stimulous. The seagull is trying to eat to survive while avctively avoiding possible threats to its survival and has not been conditioned to act in a way which is unnatural to what it is.

This conversation is like arguing that bees are smarter because they don't respond to a particular stimulus where a dog does.

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ADG

this need to be class lesson