Dogs understand gestures as well as toddlers

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 20:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Dogs possess a 2-year-old child's capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent studies.

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