Source: Sonja De Laat Spierings, used with permission. Every dog is a good boy or girl. But it turns out that a few of them may also be geniuses. According to a new study, some uniquely gifted dogs ...

Animal behaviorists have revealed how you can tell if your dogs are exceptionally gifted—whether they recognize the names of their toys. It's no secret that dogs are able to pick up simple tricks such ...

One measure of intelligence is being able to learn the name of an object after only hearing it a few times, a cognitive ability known as 'fast mapping'. Humans can quickly associate an object's ...

We often view the ability to construct and learn a language as a skill set so unique it sets us apart from all other creatures in the animal kingdom. Dogs, in all their unknowing wisdom, make a mess ...

“These special dogs learn very fast, so it is not surprising that when we conducted the test with the dogs, the average number of toy names they knew was 29, but when we published the results, more ...

A study published in Current Biology by the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels ...

Dogs with a special ability to understand human language can learn as many as 12 new words per week – and usually still remember them after a two-month lapse. So far, researchers have identified about ...