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manchestereveningnews.co.ukAnyone who has lived with a dog will know their capacity for learning the meaning of words, even ones you don’t want them to know.
How many times have you had to spell the words “walk” or “dinner” in the hope of avoiding an explosion of excitement?Previous studies have investigated how non-human animals, including chimpanzees, sea lions and rhesus monkeys, learn words.
But now a paper published in Nature shows some dogs learn the name of a new object after hearing it only four times, an ability previously thought to be confined to humans.The researchers found this ability was not common among all the dogs studied, instead it may be limited to a few “talented” or highly trained individuals.
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