A recent post on Live Science says that dogs can tell the difference between human languages, based on their familiarity with one or the other. Researchers stuck trained dogs in an MRI to measure their brains’ reactions to words in a familiar language, words in an unfamiliar language, and noise made by humans that were not speech. The findings suggested that dogs can distinguish between speech and other vocal noises, as well as between the language of their training and an unfamiliar language.
Can you use that in a story? What else does a dog know?
