Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long recognized as a skill used by toddlers who are learning to understand language, scientists have discovered that a rare subset ...

Dog owners may be inadvertently teaching their pets new words. Eavesdropping “genius dogs” are able to learn names for objects by overhearing their owners, according to groundbreaking new research ...

There's a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog -- hungry, park, and of course T-R-E-A-T. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have remarkable capacity for learning human ...

Dear reader, recently there have been several articles about the intelligence of dogs and their ability to understand spoken language and tone. One article featured Shira, a rescued Border Collie, who ...

Long recognized as a skill used by toddlers who are learning to understand language, scientists have discovered that a rare subset of “genius dogs” has also mastered the art of eavesdropping to decode ...