What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen?

If I had filmed it, I could have sold the footage for a good money, or used it to become a kind of internet personality.

I was driving up a steep street in the town of Bicas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, close to where I live. There was a pedestrian crossing painted on striped red and white over an elevation. Traffic was not particularly heavy (it is a small town, 12,000 inhabitants) that day. Then I saw her. I must use this pronoun to acknowledge that it was no beast, but a sentient, and intelligent being.

A she-dog was walking by the sidewalk with two puppies following her. When they reached the pedestrian crossing, the she-dog stopped with the puppies, looked left and right and saw me approaching. She tipped the crossing with one of her front pads. Just for the laughs, I stopped and flashed. My daughters had also seen her, so they laughed at me. But our laughter turned to bewilderment when the she-dog pulled the puppies with her mouth and crossed the street up to the other side, in an almost straight line, over the pedestrian crossing.

I must say I was bewildered because most people are reluctant to do what that she-dog did: stop, pay attention, request preference, acknowledge that preference was given and cross the street right over the crossing.

It gave me the impression that that she-dog is more intelligent than many people I know. That was not instinctive. That was learned behaviour. She had seen people do it, understood the meaning of the gestures and imitated them when she needed.

If that's not intelligence, then I don't know what intelligence is.

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