Are dogs or cats smarter? Science responds

In the competition for the title of the most adorable of the Internet and the ideal pet, man's best friend and felines have fought for a long time, but in the matter of his intellect, science has finally offered his verdict.Find out if dogs or cats are more intelligent .

A study to determinated who are more intelligent: dogs or cats

Lovers of Dogs and cat lovers have plenty of arguments to say which of these animals is the best and most intelligent pet, but finally the discussion may end because a recent investigation found which species has a higher intellect.

The study conducted this year and published in the Frontiers in Neuroanatomy magazine concluded that dogs have many more neurons than cats , suggesting that they may be more cognitively capable.The study was conducted by a team from researchers from six different universities in the United States, Brazil, Denmark and South Africa.

Scientists were given the task of analyzing the brains of three animals : one of a cat, one of a golden retriever and one of a small mixed breed dog.In the dogs' brains, despite the variation in size, there were about 500 million neurons, more than double the 250 million found in the The brain of the cat, which means dogs can be twice as cognitively capable as cats.

With this discovery, researchers were able to compare the intelligence of dogs to other animals and claim that dogs have about the same intelligence as raccoons and lions. Domestic cats have an intelligence comparable to that of bears.

Are dogs or cats smarter? Science responds

Although intelligence is difficult to quantify, the best way to do this is to count the number of neurons , as these are the basic units of information processing , according to the study neurologist, Suzana Herculaneum-Houzel.The greater the number of units in the brain, the more cognitive capacity the animal will have.

To measure the neurons, researchers had to convert the brain from the animals in a kind of soup, which provided a quantity of nuclei suspended from the neuronal cells for researchers to estimate the number of neurons.

This study analyzed the neurons of the cerebral cortex because that is the part of the brain that drives decision making and problem solving, among other things nes.

However, there is a consolation for those who belong to the feline team.Other studies got that although cats may be a little less intelligent than dogs, cat lovers are more intellectual than dog lovers.

What do you think?

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