(Mary Swift/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Your dog may prick up its ears at its name or run to the door when it hears "walk." But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cats have lived alongside humans for around 12,000 years, and during that time, it seems they've been paying close attention to ...

A small team of animal scientists at Azabu University, in Japan, has found via experimentation that common house cats are capable of associating human words with images without prompting or reward. In ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Common house cats possess the ability to associate human words with ...

A dog races into the kitchen the moment it hears “walk”, while a cat appears from nowhere at the soft rattle of a treat tin. Most pet owners have seen these moments and wondered the same thing: is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows that chimpanzees can mimic human words. Researchers are going bananas. A new scientific paper reports that ...

Dogs may have better linguistic talents than scientists have previously given them credit for. The ability to recognize specific word sounds in human speech is a difficult task since small differences ...

A team of cognitive neuroscientists at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, working with colleagues from Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion, Universidad de Guadalajara, all in Mexico, and Baylor ...