Dogs understand more than 200 words

Confirming the sentence of more of a master of which ?to my dog only it needs the speech?, investigators German discovered that a dog collie understands more than 200 other words and that it can get to learn new as fast as many children.

A member of the Kennel directory American Club, Patti Strand, said that that report, referred to a called collie Rico, was ?the good news for whom as we spoke to our dogs?.

According to Strand, ?like the parents of the babies, long ago we learned the importance of silabear key words as bath, pill or veterinarian, when we spoke our dogs in front of?. This ?thanks to the investigators who have demonstrated that the people who speak to him to her dogs they are end signallers, not a simple handful of eccentrics?, emphasized.

The students settled down that Rico knows the names dozens of toys and can find to one of them when they call it by his name. One is the same class of vocabulary that the one of the trained monkeys, dolphins and parrots to include/understand words, the investigators said.

THE EXPERIMENT

The investigators put several toys known in a room next to which Rico had not seen before. From a room different, the owner of Rico requested to him from the dog that chooses a toy, using a name for the toy that the dog never had heard.

The collie, originally bred for another class of abilities, was able to go to the room with the toy, and in seven of ten occasions, it brought to the master one to him that had before not seen.

The dog seemed to include/understand that, on account that it knew the names of all the other toys, the new one could be the unique one whose name was not to him familiar.

The investigator Julia Fischer, of the Institute Max Planck for Evolutionary Anthropology, of Leipzig, said thus that ?apparently he was able to tie a new word with a new object being based on the exclusion of the well-known, outside because she knew that the familiar objects for him or had names, or because they were not new?.

A month later, the dog still remembered the name of the new toy in three of the six calls, still without it to have seen before the first test. This rate is the one that the scientists consider equivalent to a boy of three years of age.

EVOLVING WITH THE HUMANS

The ability of learning of Rico can indicate that certain part of the understanding of the language was developed in separated form of the human language, said the scientists.

Fischer indicated that ?it is not necessary to be able to speak to include/understand much?. The equipment emphasized that the dogs have evolved with the humans and were selected by its abilities to respond to the communication of people.

The subpublisher of alive sciences of the magazine Science, Katrina Kelner, said that ?that test of so fast learning between the dogs is remarkable?. ?This ability suggests them structures of the brain that endorse this type of learning are not unique for the humans and can have formed the evolutionary base of some of the abilities of language advanced of the humans?, it added.

This investigator demanded new experiments to respond questions such as if Rico can learn a word for another thing that is not simply to call the attention, if it can demonstrate that it knows a word some other way that is not calling the attention, or can follow an instruction without attracting somebody.

Fischer and his colleagues still continue working in the home of Rico, who was born in December of 1994 and lives with his owners, to settle down if she can understand orders to put toys in boxes or entregárselos to a certain person.

Source: http://mujer.latercera.cl/noticias2004/06/15/perros.htm

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