DOG UNDERSTAND HUMAN LANGUAGE?

Dogs understand what we want to tell them - for most dog owners is not a big surprise. What is new is that this is now been proven scientifically.

Findings of behavioral research

Recent research shows that our four-legged friends we actually understand. Who even owns a dog knows that long ago, but to convince the scientific community, of course, were first tangible results of research needed.

Dogs learn to associate terms with things

Research was by now quite familiar with the dog Rico by Susanne construction. The black and white border collie was already on several occasions on TV shows and there was the curious public his ability and this is really impressive: Rico can now distinguish more than 250 different toys. From a pile of stuffed animals and toys he looks (almost) always been the right thing when his owner unleashing him, and retrieves it behaved. These 250 words Susanne construction taught him little by little.

Rico stunned the science

But Rico was in the research at the Max Planck Institute, more than he understood terms that he had never heard before, and responded accordingly. So he found prompted one red cabbage that was hidden under his toys, although he had never heard the word before. Apparently he worked on the process of elimination: Since the terms for he knew all his other articles, he has combined true that it must be in the last unnamed around the cabbage. Moreover, the new concept Rico noticed and put him continue correctly. From this the researchers concluded: Dogs can not only learn a lot, and remember, but actually understand what we are saying. And if Rico can do that, then all the other dogs can.