Feral breed lacks domestic dogs’ skill

From Seattle, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting

Wild dogs that haven’t lived with people for 5,000 years share little of the capacity of their domesticated cousins for interpreting human gestures. The limited comprehension of New Guinea singing dogs suggests that household canines progressively evolved the understanding of cues from people over the long history of the two species’ domestic partnership, according to Brian Hare of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.