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Old 08-06-2007, 09:34 PM
Lestat Lestat is offline
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Default Re: dogs, and human recognition

I think you ask a very good question. For instance, how do we tell the difference between a dog and a racoon? Sure, a raccoon has different facial features, but so do different dogs. Yet we instantly recognize even the most obscure breeds of dog as a dog.

Things like foxes, raccoons, marmasets, etc., all look pretty much the same (within their species). But dogs look very different from one and other.
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