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This Animal LifeBehind the Scenes in the Genius Dog ChallengeLots of people live with smart dogs, but what is it like to live with a canine genius? Meet border collie Squall and his housemate Bobbie Kurivial, one of only six dog-human teams to make it to the end of the international Genius Dog Challenge. On a quest to find "canine Einsteins or Mozarts," ethologists at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary issued the Genius Dog Challenge, winnowed the contestants down to just the few true geniuses, studied their world learning capabilities to much astonishment, and took Bobbie and Squall on the adventure of a life...2021-10-071h 05
The Family Pupz PodcastDo Dogs Understand Us?Today's Topic: Do dogs understand us? For many, this may seem like a dumb question, as some dog parents believe that their dogs can literally read their minds. But if they can understand us, how do they do it, exactly? For example, can they understand the literal words coming out of our mouths, or are they using other cues from us and the environment to predict and/or understand what we are trying to tell them or want from them? To help us answer this question, we invited Shany Dror, a Ph.D. candidate at the Ethology Dep...2021-09-1557 min