The third trait is metis, what we might call street smarts it's a Greek word.

So this is the NeoNurture Infant Incubator, and this has a lot of smarts built into it. And we felt great.

And yet attempts to view canine smarts as cut from the same cloth as human intelligence gloss over a lot of the details about how dogs and humans operate. Evolution doesn t ever build the same form of intelligence twice even though similar problems may lead to similar solutions.