Posts Tagged ‘Rico’

Rico the dog’s vocabulary restarts linguists’ debate

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

One thing everyone agrees on: Rico is one special dog.
Researchers in Germany spotted Rico on a TV game show and brought him in for tests. What they found, the journal Science reported last month, was that the brilliant border collie seemed to recognize more than 200 German words. That kind of vocabulary was previously thought [...]

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