While our “best friends” throughout many millennia, dogs have heard us to talk, sing, regret … and they will see, and already understand us better than we imagined.
Babies and preschool children can learn words and then gradually begin to group them, or to group objects based on their use.
In the animal kingdom, few non -human species demonstrate such linguistic capabilities; And usually only after much captivity training.
However, a study in Setemebro at Current Biology revealed that the dogs can learn these capabilities naturally.
Our “best friends” have been living closely with us since tens of thousands of years. Therefore, it makes sense that they can understand, for example, the functionality of a television command.
Still, it is amazing how intuitive certain dogs “gifted with words” (Woolenacronym in English) can be – this is because, besides learning specific words, also learn their function.
“Dogs sufficiently understand the meaning behind various labels to apply them to new toys, with very different appearances, recognizing what these toys served,” explains, to the investigation, the investigation leader, Claudia Fugazzafrom Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.
Os border colliesfor example, they are true wizards of words.
Chaser He is the main ambassador of this “very intelligent” dogs of dogs. It is called as the “The smartest dog in the world”having learned over 1,000 words. According to a 2011 study, he was able to differentiate phrases like “brings the sock to the ball” and “brings the ball to the sock.”
The current study tested eight GWL dogs, who learned two labels while playing with the owners: “Wow” and “Search.” Each one referred to a group of toys that could be used in pulling jokes (war-cable) or to pick up after being launched.
The dogs were then introduced to new toys of “Puxa” and “Search” that seemed completely different from those they already knew. Here, the owners did not use verbal labels when dogs played with new toys.
In the end, a dog was asked to choose these new toys without label as a basis for their function (pull or search). Dogs chose the correct toys with a surprising frequency, suggesting that learned their functionseven if the new toys were very different and were not verbally appointed by the owners during the game.
That is, the dogs widened the labels they had learned for certain toys based on their function.
According to Science Alert, this study is the first to show that dogs can naturally reflect on human linguistic development.
“This opens new and enthusiastic roads to study how language -related abilities can evolve and work beyond our own species,” he told the same magazine, Adam Miklósiat Eötvös Loránd University and co -author of the study.
