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This Border Collie knows the names of over 1000 toys:

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"Border collie comprehends object names as verbal referents". Pilley JW, Reid AK. Behav Processes. 2011 Feb;86(2):184-95. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.11.007. Epub 2010 Dec 8. PMID: 21145379
 
This Border Collie knows the names of over 1000 toys:

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"Border collie comprehends object names as verbal referents". Pilley JW, Reid AK. Behav Processes. 2011 Feb;86(2):184-95. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.11.007. Epub 2010 Dec 8. PMID: 21145379
This kind of thing never fails to blow me away.

A lifetime around animals with two parents as horse trainers, and I swear, every once and awhile, you’ll see one of the animals (horses and dogs in my family’s case) do something in a scenario that requires both great athleticism and intelligence; that falls so outside the norms of what is taught and believed throughout the equine cognoscenti, that all you are left saying was, “that was weird.”, and everyone rides off scratching their heads usually…
 
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