Humans have sophisticated language abilities that could be unique to our species — but dogs, it turns out, may have learned some of our tricks. In new research out of Hungary published this week in ...

Dogs have long been known as loyal companions, but many pet owners often wonder: do dogs understand human language? It sometimes feels like they do. From responding to simple commands like “sit” and ...

Dogs normally interpret people using many signals at once, including facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and scent. "When we compare humans with primates, we are looking at abilities ...

Dogs and humans may have more in common when it comes to aging than scientists realized. Researchers with the Dog Aging Project found that patterns of small molecules in dogs’ blood were linked to ...

Assistance dogs are active caregivers, according to a new study by the University of Turku and Aalto University in Finland. The study examined the collaborative interaction between humans and ...

Humans and dogs have lived alongside one another for thousands of years, and our two species get along remarkably well. But there are still misunderstandings. “People have an intuition about dogs’ ...

Dog brains segment speech into words in a way previously seen only in humans, a new study from Hungary finds. This suggests that efficient speech processing is not necessarily a consequence of humans' ...

Source: Sindhoor Pangal. How do dogs understand human gestures? Research cautions us that simple answers to questions like these can be misleading, For this and other reasons I was pleased to read a ...