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Eötvös Loránd University

Dog brings the toy

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A new study publishing in Current Biology on September 18 reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels to entirely new objects, not because the objects look similar, but because they are used in the same way.

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Department of Ethology / Eötvös Loránd University

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