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Dogs Share a Speech Trick Once Thought Uniquely Human


Your dog may prick up its ears at its name or run to the door when it hears "walk." But can its brain separate unfamiliar words when it hears them without a pause? In a new experiment, dogs listened to a continuous recording of invented words.

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