Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?

• TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Horses are just bigger, dumber dogs.

  source

  • tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bigger yes, dumber no. It’s like saying dogs are dumber than cats. They’re just different and “smart” at different things. I don’t see packs of tracking cats going out on search and rescue missions

    source

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … You also don’t see horses doing that, without being under the direct control of human riders.

      Whereas search dogs are trained to actually go looking and sniffing and finding and alerting and then returning/retreiving if no one has come to them in a sufficient amount of time…

      … all on their own.

      Most dog breeds are significantly more intelligent than most horse breeds.

      Also random fun fact: Did you know that as part of our domestication of dogs, we essentially caused them to evolve eyebrow muscles that can convey human like facial expressions?

      Wolves don’t have that. Domesticated dogs do.

      Because it makes communication and bonding between both humans and dogs just work better.

      Image

      source
    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, because cats are too smart for that shit.

      source
    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cats are scientifically less intelligent than dogs. They are not as capable of higher level reasoning.

      source

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        that’s both true and completely hilariously incorrect: There is no one “intelligence”, there are effectively infinitely many different kinds of intelligence, but broadly you can break it up into stuff like “emotional intelligence”, “spatial reasoning”, “problem solving”, etc etc.

        also it’s not fair to say that cats are less intelligent when no one bothers to train them, the few cats that actually get trained as much as dogs seem to be comparably good at doing quite complex things.

        source
  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big, scaredy cats

    source