For years, the conversation around dog intelligence has often revolved around a simple metric: how fast can a dog learn and ...

Has your dog mastered dozens of tricks, or can it barely manage to understand 'sit'? Dog intelligence experts have revealed five simple tests that can prove whether your pet is the next canine ...

The dog Chaser had the 'capabilities of a two-year-old,' mastering 1,022 toys by name and changing how we understand animal ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new study has identified the three specific traits that could make a dog a true genius. Pets that ...

Dogs rely on gestures more than verbal commands, especially during training. Recognizes Words Beyond Their Name Credit: Canva A handful of super-smart dogs have been shown to understand over 200 words ...

Dog owners may be inadvertently teaching their pets new words. Eavesdropping “genius dogs” are able to learn names for objects by overhearing their owners, according to groundbreaking new research ...

There's a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog -- hungry, park, and of course T-R-E-A-T. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have remarkable capacity for learning human ...