Certain canines can learn using cues from people’s gaze, gestures, attention and voices, researchers find Whether it is a piece of food or a four-letter expletive, words can be learned by young ...

"Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children," lead scientist, Dr. Shany Dror, said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE ...

One of the perks, and responsibilities, of having a dog is to play with them. Not only is it fun, but it’s one of the main ways they learn. Dogs are social animals; they make sense of the world ...

The study involved pups like Miso, a 6-year-old male border collie from Canada who knows the names of about 200 toys. Veronica Suen Eavesdropping on their owners seems to help some highly gifted dogs ...

For some dogs, picking up the names of new toys is as easy as listening in on human conversation 1. Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects.