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3 days ago

Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher

Many animals exhibit complex communicative behaviours that parallel elements of human language, including naming, functional categorisation, dialects, and bonding vocal patterns.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago
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Are Dogs as Smart as Human Toddlers?

Dogs can learn word labels and categorize unfamiliar objects by function, demonstrating function-based categorization comparable to 14-month-old human toddlers.
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago
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Gifted Dogs Generalize Words to Items With the Same Function

Gifted word-learning dogs can generalize verbal labels to categorize objects by shared function, not only by perceptual similarity.
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fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Some dogs can classify their toys by function

Co-author Claudia Fugazza of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, likens this ability to a person calling a hammer and a rock by the same name, or a child understanding that "cup" can describe a mug, a glass, or a tumbler, because they serve the same function. "The rock and the hammer look physically different, but they can be used for the same function," she said. "So now it turns out that these dogs can do the same."
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