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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Dog IQ

How smart is your dog?

If you think your dog is smart – yawn. If your dog yawns too – that’s one smart pooch! Researchers at London’s Birkbeck College tested a bunch of dogs – and 72% of them were sensitive enough to yawn when seeing a human yawn. Contagious behavior like yawning suggests a rudimentary capacity for empathy – something scientist believed only applied to humans and chimps.

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