But when parrots live with people, they don't have any flockmates to learn "parrot" from. Instead, they use their highly ...

These one-word-to-one-object connections show that dogs have a basic understanding of words. According to a study, a dog's ability to understand human words is roughly equivalent to that of a 12 ...

Dogs can understand that certain words refer to specific objects, according to a recent study, suggesting that they may understand words in a similar way to humans. It offers the first evidence of ...

That begs the question: can cats understand human words? The answer is a tentative yes, but they don’t process language in the same way that we, or even dogs do. Let’s find out how they ...

Published in the journal PLOS ONE last month, Rossano's findings suggest dogs in the study were able to understand certain words, contributing to the possibility of an enhanced bond between dog ...

Source: Grzegorz Eliasiewicz, used with permission. Humans use words to refer to objects in the environment. We understand that certain words “stand for” certain objects, and this ...

"This study addresses public skepticism about whether dogs truly understand what the buttons mean," said Rossano. "Our findings are important because they show that words matter to dogs ...