Dr. Shani Drawer

It's in cells.

I think there's been a sense that since a toppling of Bashar al-Assad, what's left of IS there sniffed an opportunity perhaps to regroup, to carry out attacks again, trying to get close to the sort of scale that they once were capable of doing, but nothing like it.

Sebastien Ascher

I've been working with these special dogs for a while.

And I've noticed how they're paying attention to their owners.

And I'd also get some very funny stories of owners telling me they were thinking of ordering a pizza and they were talking between them.

And then the dog ran into the room with their toy named pizza.

Or they were talking on the phone and they mentioned something like a bag of rice.

And then the dog ran with the toy named bag of rice.

And I was like, okay, so the dogs are doing something here.

And I really wanted to understand the depth of what they were doing.

So we know that almost all dogs can learn things like sit or down or stay, the labels of actions.

What we found in our previous studies is that actually only very few dogs show evidence of learning object labels.

So for example,

to get their ball versus to get their rope or a frisbee.

And I have to say, it's not only our research group that found this.

There are also a few other research groups that tried to train dogs to learn names of objects and found that there were only a small group of dogs that can do this.

And particular breeds of dogs?

The majority of these dogs are border collies.

It's important to note that they're not only border collies.