- Chaser (dog)
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Chaser Species Dog Breed Border Collie Sex Female Born Chaser Nation from America Title The Smartest Dog In The World Chaser is a Border Collie dog with the largest tested memory of any animal.[1][2] She can identify 1,022 toys by their name and retrieve them. She was trained by psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley, both of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.[2]
References
- ^ Nicholas Wade (January 27, 2011). "Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl!". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18dog.html?_r=1&src=dayp. Retrieved 2011-01-18. "Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, S.C., has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language."
- ^ a b "Smartest Dog". Popular Science. December 22, 2010. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-12/video-smartest-dog-ever-can-pick-out-1022-toys-name. Retrieved 2010-12-27. "Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of 1,022 toys, one by one, for three years. New Scientist reports that they got her to fetch the toy and then they repeated the name to reinforce her understanding."
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