Jack Baty's Weblog Archives (2000-2020)My dog is smarter than me
According to Tim Pennings, dogs calculate the fastest way to retrieve a thrown stick using some form of canine calculus before they even start running. Seems Zim only *looks* dumb.
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“Thus,” he adds, “in swimming to shore he was not acting to minimize his distance to the stick as quickly as possible. Instead he did in fact apparently make a ‘global' decision form the outset as to what path would get him to the stick most quickly.”