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Eötvös Loránd University

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Researchers at ELTE Department of Ethology, Hungary designed an experiment to investigate whether dogs can recognize their owners based on pre-recorded speech. The results provided the first evidence that dogs are capable of voice-based individual-level recognition of humans. The study was published in Animal Behaviour. 

 

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Photo: Kinga Surányi / ELTE Eötvös Loránd University

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