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SmartDog
According to International Herald Tribune a 9-year-old border collie named Rico was able to learn the name of a new object in one try, by a process of elimination.
Rico was displaying a kind of learning by inference that is called 'fast mapping'. It was thought to be a language-learning ability specific to humans, but Rico's ability suggests that it is more widespread.
Rico might be a special case among dogs, but when do we see the first ad for animals?
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posted by BlogFonk: Saturday, June 12, 2004 [#] Erms Suripatty