Thursday, 10. June 2004

Topic: NEWS - on June 10, 2004 at 3:56:00 PM CEST

Smarter than the average dog?

German researchers have found a border collie named Rico who understands more than 200 words and can learn new ones as quickly as many children. The researchers found that Rico knows the names of dozens of play toys and can find the one called for by his owner. That is a vocabulary size about the same as apes, dolphins and parrots trained to understand words, the researchers say.

Rico can even take the next step, figuring out what a new word means.

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