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Eötvös Loránd University

What do dogs mean to us today

Young Dog Owners More Likely to See Pets as Children, Study Finds

Categories Life & Non-humans
illustration of a wealthy man surrounded by golden objects

Income Inequality Perception: Why We Underestimate the Wealth of the Top 1%

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
A very smart dog, doing calculus

Study Reveals Dogs Can Imitate Human Actions from Video Projections

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
It’s no surprise that dogs can learn to understand and respond to human words. Your dog can learn to sit when you say “sit” and come when called. But a new study has made the surprising discovery by recording brain activity that dogs generally also know that certain words “stand for” certain objects. When they hear those words, they activate a matching mental representation in their minds. The findings are reported in Current Biology on March 22, 2024.

Your dog understands that some words ‘stand for’ objects, new study shows

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
A very smart dog, doing calculus

What gifted dogs have in common

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
Learning about objects: the treat is always only on the white plate or only on the black plate, the other is empty.

The way dogs see the world: Objects are more salient to smarter dogs

Categories Life & Non-humans
Smaller dogs may live twice as long life as their larger counterparts.

How body size shapes dogs’ aging patterns

Categories Life & Non-humans
The researchers of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, investigated whether young puppies, kittens and wolf pups have different tendencies to observe and imitate what a person did, without any pre-training and food reward.

Dog puppies spontaneously match human actions, while kittens, wolf pups not so much

Categories Life & Non-humans
Woman playing with a pig and holding an apple

Dogs show things to humans but pigs do not

Categories Life & Non-humans

Dogs can distinguish languages

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

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