Human-dog communication - breed as important as species

Dog breeds selected to work in visual contact with humans, such as sheep dogs and gun dogs, are better able to comprehend a pointing gesture than those breeds that usually work without direct supervision. A series of tests, described in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioural and Brain Functions, should caution researchers against making simple generalisations about the effects of domestication and on dog-wolf differences in the utilisation of human visual signals...

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