Dogs with Large Vocabularies Can Understand Category Words, Not Just Names
Some dogs can sit, stay, and fetch. Arya, a six-year-old border collie in Italy, can do all that—plus recognize the word “pizza” if you’re not careful. She and nine other “gifted word learners” have shown scientists that dogs with unusually large vocabularies can go beyond memorizing names. In a new study, these animals linked words not just to how toys looked, but to how they worked—tugging or fetching—mirroring how young children begin extending their own vocabularies by function and category as well as form. Anirban Mukhopadhyay with Scientific American has the full story.
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