Some dogs can expand their vocabulary by eavesdropping on their owners
NEW YORK (AP) — Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay. ” They're less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys are called. Only an elite group of gifted word-learner dogs can retain the names of hundreds of toys. Scientists know of about 50 such pooches, but they aren’t yet sure what's behind their wordy skills. Now, new research is pushing the limits of what the dogs can do. Scientists already knew that these pups a...
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