喵星人和汪星人誰更聰明？科學家公布答案了

最新 08-24

作為受眾最多的兩種寵物，喵星人和汪星人各自俘獲了一大批鏟屎官。微博大V@回憶專用小馬甲常年更新的妞妞（狗）和端午（貓）的萌照也是俘獲了一大票粉絲~

但貓奴和汪奴之間一直存在著一個爭論：到底是貓還是狗更聰明？貓奴們認為，喵星人天生高貴，智商不是蠢汪可以比的；而汪奴們則認為，汪星人忠誠親近人類，它們才是心靈聰慧的代表。那麼，貓和狗誰更聰明呢？外媒做出的這項研究給出了答案↓

A new study from researchers at the University of Salford, in Manchester, England finally put a highly debated question to rest —canines are, in fact, smarter than cats.

英國曼徹斯特索爾福德大學研究員的最新研究終於解決了一個飽受爭議的問題——狗確實比貓聰明。

The 2017 study conducted by an international team of researchers examined the brain』s outer layer of multiple carnivorous animals, including dogs and cats. The researchers studied eight different meat-eating animals including the brown bear, a ferret, raccoon, dog, cat, banded mongoose, lion and striped hyena, to see which animals that eat prey have the most cortical neurons. (Meaning they have more brain power.)

該研究由一個國際研究小組於2017年開展，檢驗了包括狗和貓在內的多種食肉動物的大腦外層。他們研究了八種不同的食肉動物，包括棕熊、雪貂、浣熊、狗、貓、非洲獴、獅子和條紋鬣狗，觀察哪些捕獵動物的大腦皮質神經元最多（這意味著腦力更發達）。

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The study shows that dogs have the most neurons of any carnivore, despite not having the biggest brains, leading to the analyzation that pups are smarter than felines.Dogs have around 530 million neurons, which calculates their behavior, versus the 250 million found in cats.

該研究表明，儘管狗狗在食肉動物中腦容量不是最大的，卻擁有最多的神經元，所以分析認為狗比貓更聰明。狗有大約5.3億個神經元來計算行為，而貓只有2.5億個神經元。

Cats, meanwhile, have roughly the same amount of neurons as brown bears.

貓和棕熊的神經元數量大致相同。

「I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has, especially in the cerebral cortex, determines the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience,」 neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel from Vanderbilt University noted in the study.

「我相信，動物所擁有的神經元的絕對數量，尤其是大腦皮層的神經元數量，決定了它們內在心理狀態的豐富程度，以及根據既往經驗預測所處環境可能發生什麼的能力。」范德堡大學神經系統科學家Suzana Herculano-Houzel在研究中指出。

She added: 「I』m 100 per cent a dog person, but, with that disclaimer, our findings mean to me that dogs have the biological capability of doing much more complex and flexible things with their lives than cats can.」

她還表示：「我是個百分百的愛狗人士，但拋開這個身份不談，我們的研究結果表明，狗比貓更有生物學能力來完成更複雜和靈活的事情。」

The study — which is published in the science journal Animal Cognition — also identifies 47 different gestures that a pooch uses in an attempt to communicate with their human. Scientists managed to decode what 19 of them meant and revealed the meaning in a dictionary form.

這項研究發表在自然期刊《動物認知》上，研究人員還確定了狗狗和人類溝通的47種獨特手勢，並以詞典的形式解釋了其中19種手勢的意義。

See the decoding of dog』s actions below!

以下是狗的某些動作的含義：

Feed Me:

喂我：