Closing Keynote: Dog is Love --The Essence of What Makes Dogs Special
(Room Oregon Ballroom 203)
02 Nov 19
2:45 PM
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4:00 PM
For years now scientists have been trying to prove that dogs are smart. Dogs go where people point. They sniff out explosives. One or two dogs can even understand hundreds of spoken words. But the truth is the secret to dogs’ success isn’t their intelligence, it’s their ability to make friends. Dogs have an unprecedented - in fact quite abnormal - enthusiasm for forming emotional bonds. It is their ability to get people to care about them -- not their really quite pedestrian intelligence -- that has made them the most widespread mammal on the surface of this planet. Clive Wynne, Ph.D., will recount how he came to realize that it is dogs’ capacity to form emotional bonds that has made them so successful and the new science that shows how this is possible.