In a result that won’t come as a surprise to dog lovers, US researchers have found that puppies are born with an innate ability to interact with humans.
Do you ever get the feeling that your dog just
gets you? Not in a creepy my-dog-is-my-only-friend-kind-of-way. But, rather, how you and your dog are always speaking the same language, despite you not being fluent in, uh, doggy vocabulary. Not counting discipline (of course), but when did you teach you or your dog how to communicate with each other? New research has found that there s a reason you don t have to.
Researchers at the University of Arizona looked at 375 eight-and-a-half-week-old retriever puppies and discovered that puppies are a lot more like humans than we thought. Similar to a newborn baby, puppies inherit communication intelligence from their biological mother and father. That’s right puppies are
Anyone that s ever interacted with a dog knows that they often have an amazing capacity to interact with people. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on June 3 have found that this ability is present in dogs from a very young age and doesn t require much, if any, prior experience or training. But, some of them start off better at it than others based on their genetics.