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 ...

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 ...

Some dogs might be smarter than others. Hungarian researchers at Eötvös Loránd University are gathering evidence on this topic with a "Genius Dog Challenge." The nonprofit research project has been ...

“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 ...

Shira, a 7-year-old hound and border collie mix from Rumson, has close to 200 toys and she has learned a name for all of them. When she's asked to to fetch her toys, she accurately heads for the one ...