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Scientists recently examined studies on dog intelligence and compared them with research into the minds of other intelligent animals. The researchers found that dogs are among the more intelligent carnivores (食肉动物), social hunters and domestic animals, but that their intelligence does not __26__ other intelligent animals in any of those categories. Though a significant body of research has examined dog cognition __27__, the authors of this new study found little to warrant the __28__ of work that has been devoted to the topic.

科学家们最近审查了关于狗智能的研究，并将其与其他智能动物的思维研究进行了比较。研究人员发现，狗是较聪明的食肉动物、社会性猎手和家养动物之一，但其智能在这些类别中均未超越其他智能动物。尽管此前已有大量研究探讨狗的认知，但这项新研究的作者认为，没有足够理由支持已投入该主题的大量工作。

Stephen Lea, lead author of the new study, argues that many researchers seem to have designed their studies to __29__ how clever dogs are, rather than simply to study dogs' brains. Lea and a colleague examined more than 300 studies of dog cognition, comparing the studies' results with those from research into other animals. The researchers made specific comparisons between the different species in different categories of intelligence. These comparisons __30__ that dogs are intelligent, but their intelligence is not as __31__ as some researchers might have believed.

这项新研究的主要作者Stephen Lea认为，许多研究人员似乎设计研究是为了证明狗有多聪明，而不是单纯研究狗的大脑。Lea和一位同事审查了300多项关于狗认知的研究，并将这些研究的结果与其他动物的研究进行了比较。研究人员对不同物种在不同智能类别上进行了具体比较。这些比较证实了狗是聪明的，但其智能并不像一些研究人员可能认为的那样强大。

In many areas, though, comparisons were not possible. For example, the researchers noted that both dogs and cats are known to be able to recognize and __32__ human voices. But the investigators could not find any data to indicate which species can remember a greater number of __33__ human voices, so it was impossible to compare the two on that front. However, not all researchers agree __34__ with the findings of this study. Zachary Silver, an American researcher, believes the authors of the new study __35__ the idea that an excessive amount of research has been devoted to dogs, as the field of dog cognition is young, and there is much to be learned about how dogs think.

然而，在许多领域，比较是不可能的。例如，研究人员注意到，狗和猫都被认为能够识别和区分人类声音。但调查人员找不到任何数据表明哪个物种能记住更多不同的声音，因此无法在这一点上比较两者。然而，并非所有研究人员都完全同意这项研究的发现。美国研究人员Zachary Silver认为，新研究的作者夸大了投入狗的研究过多，因为狗认知领域还很年轻，关于狗如何思考还有很多需要了解。