It’s happening in Mandarin Chinese as well, with the new character X也, which combines the Roman letter X with an element that ...

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...

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

"Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children," lead scientist, Dr.

Some gifted dogs with an expanded vocabulary can learn new words and connect them to objects, a sign they learn as well as ...

These “Gifted Word Learner” (GWL) dogs can learn names for objects by overhearing exchanges between members of their human ...

A new study found that some dogs can learn words for objects by overhearing a conversation, an ability humans begin to ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say.

A new study has discovered that dogs can learn names of new objects just by listening to their owners interact with each other.

Some dogs can learn words by eavesdropping on conversations, study finds. The rare ability mirrors how 18-month-old toddlers ...

Dogs can learn new words just by overhearing human conversations, a study has found. Many dog owners find they have to avoid ...