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 ...

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 ...

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 images without prompting or reward, new research ...

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 ...

Let’s get this one thing straight: Doggos don’t speak English, but the good news is that they’re better at reading humans than humans are at reading dogs. Although it was once believed that dogs ...

Though a study found that cats learn to associate images with words faster than human babies do, the authors of the research noted that their study focused on short-term associations, rather than ...