Dogs are fairly intelligent, they learn rapidly and it is not too difficult to train them, but a new Austrian research published online in Animal Cognition has really come up with a surprise: dogs ...

To the dog lover, the ability of man's best friend to bark at the postman and fetch a stick is proof of his intelligence. But they may be even brighter than that. Scientists have welcomed dogs into a ...

Dogs are capable of learning the instruction “do that again,” and can flexibly access memories of their own recent actions—cognitive abilities they were not known to possess, researchers report.