lunes, 11 de mayo de 2009

Dog Genius

The documentary "Dog Genius" seen in class was about dog behaviour. First of all, it begins describing how a fox cross breed changes its behaviour, being more friendly with people and it explains the actual dogs behaviour. So, differents studies on dogs seen that the best friend of the human is a genius. For example, a study on a beagle dog called Mabel, was a dog that smelt her owner from a long distances, because her world was basically the olfaction, in fact, the dog's olfactory lobule is bigger than ours. Another example, Donnie was a doberman that put in order his toys. All the time, Donnie taken his toys and put it into the field in order, as well as a triangle or parallel rows. The studies showed that Donnie wanted to catch his owners attention. Also the documental showed a dog called Ambula who could understand differents signs of its owner, especially following the movement of the eyes when its owner indicates what could she do.
I think, after this documental, the dogs are really our faithful companions and its intelligence is greater than we know and the humans studies can identify.

viernes, 1 de mayo de 2009

My favourite picture

This is "Clever" and I. This is one of my favourite pictures of the last summer wich was taken by my mother when we were in Saval Park in Valdivia. It was a so beautiful place in that city and my mother and I both taken many pictures that day. In the way to the exit to the park, we saw a field with some horses that used to give rides, and that horse was alone. I closed to him and he looked me so sweetly that I couldn't avoid to caress him!! and in that moment my mother, rightly, taken the pic. The carers of the site told me it was called "Clever" and it was the most quiet, intelligent and friendly horse on that place. I like this picture because, although I didn't want to ride the horse to the pic, it was so sweet that I felt it gaves beauty to the photo and the place was also one of the most beautiful places that I visited on summer, and if you have the opportunity to go to Valdivia, I recommend visit it!