Cats or Dogs: Who Is Smarter?翻译
猫和狗，哪个更聪明？
1. Do you think cats or dogs are smart? We try to answer the age-old question by exploring the intelligence of your favorite pets.翻译
你觉得猫和狗哪个更聪明呢？ 我们试着通过探究你最爱的宠物的智力来回答这个古老的问题。
The Age-Old Question
2. Pet lovers often argue about which popular pet is in fact the better companion: cats or dogs. While the answer to that question is fairly subjective, you’d think there’d be a scientific solution to another argument: Which is smarter?翻译
古老的问题
爱宠物的人总是在争论哪种时下流行的宠物是最好的伴侣： 猫还是狗。 问题的答案是相当主观的。 即便如此， 你也会认为需要通过科学的手段来证明另一个争论的问题： 哪个更聪明？
Dogs
3. Dogs have larger brains than cats—and they have been growing, while cat brains have stayed the same size over the past 8 000 years.翻译
狗
狗的脑容量不仅比猫要大， 而且还在不断地增大； 而猫的脑容量8000多年来没有变化。
4. Dogs are more social than cats, which in fact leads to the increased brain size. Because cats don’t show any signs of improving their social skills, the brain gap is likely to become wide.翻译
狗比猫更善于交际， 这一点导致狗的脑容量不断增大。 由于猫没有显示出任何的交际才能， 因此它与狗之间的脑容量的差距越来越大。
5. Dogs help to make our society better. Dr. Stanley Coren, the author of several books on dogs, pointed out: “We never hear about such things as a ‘seeing eye cat’, ‘police cat’ or ‘search and rescue cat’.”翻译
狗能使我们的社会变得更好。 斯坦利·科伦博士写过好几本与狗有关的书， 他指出：“ 我们从没有听说过 ‘ 导盲猫’‘ 警猫’或 ‘ 搜救猫’。 ”
Cats
6. Cats can deliver the mail. According to an article in The New York Times, an organization decided to use cats to send messages between villages. The test was about whether these housecats could find their way back home from a strange place, and what do you know? They did. Cats have 300 million nerve cells, while dogs have 160 million—meaning they can process information better than dogs.翻译
猫
猫可以送信。《 纽约时报》上的一篇文章中提到： 某机构决定让猫在村落之间送信。 这个测试是用来了解这些家猫是否能够从一个陌生的地方找到回家的路。 你知道结果如何吗？ 它们找到了回家的路。猫有3亿个神经元， 而狗只有1.6万个神经元。 这意味着猫处理信息的能力要比狗强。
7. Cats can care for themselves. Most dogs fully rely on their owners. Because they are so dependent, scientists say they’ve lost the ability to think for themselves so that they would be unable to live in the wild.翻译
猫可以自己养活自己， 而大部分狗则完全依靠主人生存。 因为狗具有依赖性， 科学家们说它们已经失去了为自己考虑的能力， 因此不能在野外生存。