Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of ...

In addition to being man's best friend, dogs are close enough to humans in their physiology that they are often used in studies of human diseases and their treatments. For instance, a better ...

Any dog owner would tell you that their canine companions are attuned to their humans’ emotional state and respond ...

A trio of ethologists at Eötvös Loránd University, in Hungary, has found, via experimentation, that some dogs are able to remember toy names for up to two years. In their study, published in the ...