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How Many Words Can Dogs Learn?
The average dog knows around 90 words. A few gifted individuals have learned over a thousand — and what they are doing with them is stranger than it sounds.
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Do Dogs Recognise Themselves in a Mirror?
Dogs fail the classic mirror test. But when researchers built a version using smell instead of sight, they passed — which says more about the test than the dog.
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Can Dogs Count?
Dogs cannot do arithmetic, but research suggests they notice when the numbers do not add up, using the same brain region humans use for approximate quantity.
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Puppy Dog Eyes Are a Real Evolutionary Adaptation
Dogs have a facial muscle wolves essentially lack, and it exists because humans respond to it. This is selection we did, recently, without meaning to.
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The Guilty Look Is Not Guilt
The experiment that tested this is elegant and the answer is clear: the look appears when you look cross, whether or not the dog did anything.
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Are Dogs Left-Pawed or Right-Pawed?
Dogs do show paw preference, it seems to differ between males and females, and there is intriguing evidence linking it to temperament.