The Nature of Things explores how dogs might be using human language with the help of buttons on a soundboard.

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

The front door to a house on a wide, leafy street opens and Stella greets me, tongue slurping my fingers, her tail wagging like a windshield wiper in overdrive. Stella, part Australian cattle dog and ...

Some dogs have an amazing ability to learn the names of dozens, even hundreds of toys. Now, a new study suggests these super learners can pick up new words by overhearing people talk, just as toddlers ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking new study, however, shows that some gifted dogs can also match given ...

Some gifted canines pick up words simply by overhearing people speak to each other without needing to be taught ...

Spelling F-O-O-D or O-U-T might only get you so far around your dog if he or she is considered a Gifted Word Learner (GWL). Researchers have just figured out that even when you're not talking to them ...

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