UNIT 4: ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE: DOGS

Dog intelligence is the ability of a dog to learn, think, and solve problems. Dog trainers, owners, and researchers have as much difficulty agreeing on a method for testing canine intelligence, as they do for human intelligence. This kind of animal is known as the best friend of the man; and it is. It really is because it adapts easily to humans´s life, and help them, are their company, some of them understands their owners like no one, they are really smart.

Dogs are pack animals, meaning that they understand social structure and obligations and are capable of learning how to behave around other members of the pack. Adult canines train their young by correcting them when they behave in an unacceptable manner (biting too hard, eating out of turn, and so on) and reward them for acceptable behavior (by playing with them, feeding them, cleaning them, and so on).They are also den animals. This means that they can easily learn behavior related to keeping the den clean (such as housebreaking) and relaxing in an enclosed area (such as a crate during travel or for training).

To conclude, the dogs are such a smarts animals, in the other hand there aren´t the smart ones of the list of animals, but they are one of the perfect company to have and even that many people think the opposite because they are animals, and they are dirty and doesnt now how to act like a human because the aren´t.  However they are easily domesticated.





Bibliography

Dog intelligence. http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/d/dog_intelligence.htm. Science Daily. science reference. december 9th,2013.

VOCABULARY FROM UNIT 4

1. Socialized: trained to behace in a way that is acceptable to others in your group
2. Deceive: make someone believe something that is not true
3. Spontaneosly: in a way that is not planned
4. Intriguing: interesting because it´s inusual or unexpected
5. Vocalize: make a sound with the voice
6. Rote memorization: learned from repeating and not from thinking
7. Categorize: put objects into groups according to what kind, color, size, etc. they are
8. Figure out: conclude, realize
9. Context: the situation, events, or information related to something
10. Pest: animals that create a disturbance or bother people
11. Unethical: immoral
12. Compassion: kindness
13. (give someone) the floor: allow someone to speak
14. Off the top of (someone´s) head: without thinking about it in advance
15. Nuisance: something that bothers or annoys
16. Get it: understand
17. Deseases: sicknesses
18. Hazard: danger
19. Humane: kind; gentle
20. Superior: better than

GRAMMAR: REPORTED SPEECH

It reports what the emisor said without using the exact word, for exemple:

Original: I'm going to a party today!
Reported: The girl said that she was going to a party today