Tuesday, 26 January 2021

Dog Days?

Earlier studies have claimed that some dogs (2 Border collies) could learn the names of hundreds of objects by play. A new study carried out at the Hungarian Eotvos Lorand University on another Border collie and a Yorkshire terrier, investigated this phenomenom in more detail (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/26/you-can-teach-an-old-dog-new-words-researchers-find). The study found that these dogs (recommended for their 'intelligence' by their owners) could often choose the right object by a process of elimination. They were faced with objects they knew by name and a novel object. The dogs could select the novel object, when it was requested (by name). It seems that some dogs (it's apparently a minority), are more intelligent than we give them credit for.
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