Everyone thought this adorable little dog had somehow learned to speak human language. Whenever someone appeared outside the ...

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While most people are amazed at prairie dogs having descriptive terms for size, shape, color, and type of predator, to me the most striking discovery was finding that all of these calls were composed ...

When a dog hears a word, is it just an auditory stimulus, or does it go deeper to have some sort of meaning?” To find out, he ...

Dogs hear us talk every day, but what does their brain do with the sounds? A new study suggests that dogs can pick out ...

Dog owners talk to their pets every day, in one continuous stream of sound. Past infancy, people rely more on consonants than on vowels to pick the words out of a stream like that, even though vowels ...

The viral trend of talking buttons for dogs has captured the imagination of pet owners everywhere. These buttons, which play recorded words when pressed, promise a new way for dogs to communicate with ...