Shani Dror
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The dogs in this study are super learners that know the names of dozens, even hundreds of toys.
Shani Dror is with the Veterinary University in Vienna and ELTE University in Budapest.
She says after years of searching, researchers have only found about 45 of these gifted dogs.
This is a really, really rare ability.
Her team had the dog's owners talk about a brand new toy with another person while the dog was in the same room.
None of the speech was directed at the dog.
Nonetheless, in later tests, when owners asked the dog to retrieve this particular toy out of a pile of toys in another room, the dogs almost always grabbed the right one.
When typical pet dogs were tested in the same way, they didn't get it.
Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.
The dogs in this study are super learners that know the names of dozens, even hundreds of toys.
Shani Dror is with the Veterinary University in Vienna and ELTE University in Budapest.
She says after years of searching, researchers have only found about 45 of these gifted dogs.
This is a really, really rare ability.
Her team had the dog's owners talk about a brand new toy with another person.
while the dog was in the same room.
None of the speech was directed at the dog.
Nonetheless, in later tests, when owners asked the dog to retrieve this particular toy out of a pile of toys in another room, the dogs almost always grabbed the right one.
When typical pet dogs were tested in the same way, they didn't get it.
Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.