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06/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Be fluent in “dog speech”: Animal behaviorists share science-proven ways to talk to your dog

Dog owners have long believed that their dogs can perfectly understand them. Animal behaviorists have backed them up on this belief, to the point that a new study suggests we should adopt “dog-directed speech” to make sure our dogs understand us, according to an article on The Conversation. Researchers have taken note of the fact […]

11/05/2017 / By Russel Davis

Bats, like humans, decipher where others are from based on their regional “accent,” according to new study

An animal study has revealed that bats have regional dialects just like humans, and are able to decipher and mimic how other bats communicate. As part of the study, a team of researchers at the Tel Aviv University in Israel have caught pregnant female Egyptian fruit bats in central Israel. The female bats have been randomly assigned to three identical […]

05/25/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

GRRRRR: Study reveals that dogs can talk to humans

If you sometimes feel like you and your dog are having actual conversations, you may not be so far off-track. A new study has shown that dogs have a way of making humans understand what they mean to say with their barks and growls, allowing them to communicate with their humans on a level much […]

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