Some dogs are not just listening for the word “walk.” A small, rare group can quietly monitor human conversations and pick up brand new vocabulary without any direct training, behaving more like ...

Basket, a 7-year-old female Border collie, knows the names of over 200 dog toys. A new study finds that certain dogs can learn new words simply by overhearing them — much as a human toddler would.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: @wally.meets.world / Instagram) If you have seen Wally the Golden Retriever before, you know he is this big, soft ...

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Grenoble Alpes—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has shown that from the age of two, children ...

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...

Stills from the videos shown to the children with a person teaching them the names of new objects in the three experimental conditions. Credits: Joan Birulés and Mathilde Fort. A research team from ...