Dogs Are Hearing More Than You Think

My French-Canadian friend has a Labrador that seems to ignore me consciously. I talk to the dog, as I do every animal I spend any amount of time with that is more than just in passing, and he’s blank. He’s not dumb, he’s just not connecting, quite clearly. It’s enough to make me wonder sometimes if I somehow wronged him, though that doesn’t seem right either because he is otherwise affectionate and often down to cuddle. Real hot and cold, that one.

Watching his very different reactions to English and French, I wondered if he could tell the difference between the two.

column, but then EOY obligations called and it got put on the back burner and simply evaporated, as stuff tends to do during the holidays.by researchers from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary probed the exact question I had regarding how dogs hear different languages. Tdifferentiate between languages.

Laura V. Cuaya, the first author of the study, titled “Speech naturalness detection and language representation in the dog brain,”that she came up with the idea after moving to Hungary from Mexico. Until then, she’d only spoken to her dog Kun-kun in Spanish and she wondered if he could tell that people in his new country were speaking a different language.Brighten up, buttercup

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