What Were They Thinking? More Than We Knew.

A great article endorsing what we knew about our canines.



What Were They Thinking? More Than We Knew.
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 4, 2007; A05

Dog owners have long maintained that their pooches have a lot more going on between their furry ears than scientists acknowledge. Now, new research is adding to the growing evidence that man's best friend thinks a lot more than many humans have believed.
The provocative new experiment indicated that dogs can do something that previously only humans, including infants, have been shown capable of doing: decide how to imitate a behavior based on the specific circumstances in which the action takes place.
"The fact that the dogs imitate selectively, depending on the situation -- that has not been shown before," said Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, who led the study. "That's something completely new."

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