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We believe that animals are more intelligent than what we, humans, are ready to accept, and this concept includes farm, wild and domestic animals as well. During our expeditions exploring a certain part of the Andes and in a spot were we pass fairly regularly, we always see a family of condors coming to see us, but over the years they actually began closing up on us, like if they already knew about our explorers.

It is thought that condors would never approach humans, that they are very rare and would just observe from a distance, but these winged folks never behave according to expectations. Their nest is in a pretty inaccessible place, and they would be safe there; nevertheless, they began coming closer until they actually landed near us, and they keep doing so as we stop to eat.

It seems like if they are getting somewhat domesticated, at least regarding us, and they seem to celebrate our visits and see some benefits about the fact. Superior mammals like cats and dogs possess a highly-evolved brain; it may not be the same as ours, but it is enough to elaborate ideas and it can be stimulated.

In fact, these domestic animals are undergoing a forced evolution since domestication began, about ten or fifteen thousand years ago; this is an established fact, observed and quantified by zoologists. It seems that these changes are the evolutionary response to the fact that domestication means a high degree of interaction with humans, not only to take advantage of the food and shelter that they can obtain from us, but the intellectual stimulation that they receive.

A domestic dog can really behave like a five year old human toddler with no capacity for verbal communication, but indeed, a degree for non-verbal communication. We cannot talk to our dogs bout the games that they want to play, but we can certainly communicate about them; they understand us, and we understand what they want.

That cannot be instinct because instinctive responses take aeons to become hard-coded in the brains of species, and the response of a dog while playing or eating, going to sleep or when we want them to get down from the couch are immediate and innovative; that is, there is no precedent for such conditions which may have contributed to program an instinctive response.

If you have observed any pet close and long enough, certainly you saw that not everything they do can be explained as instinct. So we think that training a dog should not be limited to imprinting obedience, but stimulating its intellect as well.

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