{"id":2453,"date":"2025-04-17T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/dogs-can-listen-in-on-human-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:07:04","slug":"dogs-can-listen-in-on-human-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/dogs-can-listen-in-on-human-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs can &#039;listen in&#039; on human speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-17 14:07:03<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Dogs may be able to &#8220;listen in&#8221; on human speech.<BR><br \/>\nA new study has shown that canines have the neurological ability to pick out information that is relevant to them when humans are talking.<BR><br \/>\nPooches can do this when keywords, like their name, are contained within wider conversation and when a person is not directly engaging with them.<BR><br \/>\nThe study involved about 50 dogs from numerous breeds and challenges the idea that the animals are only responsive to familiar words spoken in &#8220;baby talk&#8221; tones.<BR><br \/>\nThe experts suggest that this could be a result of human domestication but recommend conducting similar tests on wolves and other wild species to see if they have the same abilities.<BR><br \/>\nDavid Reby, lead author of the study at the University of Sussex, said: &#8220;Our research shows that dogs are able to pick out and recognise words relevant to them in a monotonous stream of otherwise irrelevant speech, even in the absence of the intonation cues we usually use to engage them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-17 14:07:03 Dogs may be able to &#8220;listen in&#8221; on human speech. A new study has shown that canines have the neurological ability to pick out information that is relevant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}