Are you a cat person or a dog person? People around the world are bitterly divided about which animal is the better pet. But a new study may have found a clear winner when it comes to which animal is more intelligent: Dogs. Researchers at Vanderbilt University in the U.S. state of Tennessee recently studied the brains of several meat-eating mammals, including dogs, cats, lions, raccoons and bears. They found that dogs have many more neurons in the cerebral cortex than cats do. That area of the brain is connected to thinking, planning, and complex behavior. These are considered key to understanding an animal’s intelligence. Dogs have about 530 million cortical neurons; cats have about 250 million, the researchers found. Humans, for comparison, have 16 billion.
Title: New Study Suggests Dogs May Be Smarter than Cats
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/smart_dogs.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='New Study Suggests Dogs May Be Smarter than Cats' data-article-id='2761'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='4167'>Are you a cat person or a dog person?</span> <span data-start-time='4167' data-end-time='11792'>People around the world are bitterly divided about which animal is the better pet.</span> <span data-start-time='11792' data-end-time='20583'>But a new study may have found a clear winner when it comes to which animal is more intelligent:</span> <span data-start-time='20583' data-end-time='22188'>Dogs.</span> <span data-start-time='22188' data-end-time='40271'>Researchers at Vanderbilt University in the U.S. state of Tennessee recently studied the brains of several meat-eating mammals, including dogs, cats, lions, raccoons and bears.</span> <span data-start-time='40271' data-end-time='48833'>They found that dogs have many more neurons in the cerebral cortex than cats do.</span> <span data-start-time='48833' data-end-time='58042'>That area of the brain is connected to thinking, planning, and complex behavior.</span> <span data-start-time='58042' data-end-time='64417'>These are considered key to understanding an animal’s intelligence.</span> <span data-start-time='64417' data-end-time='77146'>Dogs have about 530 million cortical neurons; cats have about 250 million, the researchers found.</span> <span data-start-time='77146' data-end-time='82667'>Humans, for comparison, have 16 billion.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/smart_dogs.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=9786 data-hint-location='40271' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/what_does_cortex_mean.m4a'>What does cortex mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='outer layer'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/outer_layer.m4a'><span>outer layer</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/meat_eating.m4a'><span>meat eating</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/intelligence.m4a'><span>intelligence</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/brain_cells.m4a'><span>brain cells</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=9787 data-hint-location='22188' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/what_organ_was_studied.m4a'>What organ was studied?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='brain'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/nose.m4a'><span>nose</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/brain.m4a'><span>brain</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/lung.m4a'><span>lung</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/heart.m4a'><span>heart</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=9788 data-hint-location='40271' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/dogs_have_more__blank__than_cats.m4a'>Dogs have more <span class='blank'>neurons</span> than cats.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='neurons'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/colors.m4a'><span>colors</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/owners.m4a'><span>owners</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/neurons.m4a'><span>neurons</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2244/behaviors.m4a'><span>behaviors</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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