December 26, 2019
Study: Dogs can count, kind of
That’s among the finding of a new study by researchers at Emory University (EU) in Atlanta, Georgia. More accurately, the findings indicate that dogs spontaneously process basic numerical quantities—such as the number other dogs in a dog park or the number of squirrels in the front yard—and they do it using a part of their brain that corresponds closely to the same part of the brains humans use to do the same thing