Rico the dog ‘has learning ability of three-year-old’

A BORDER Collie called Rico has a ‘vocabulary’ of 200 words and has astounded researchers by showing he can learn new words as well as a three-year-old human child.

Rico the dog ‘has learning ability of three-year-old’

The nine-year-old dog, who belongs to a German family, is also able to learn the names of unfamiliar toys in one go, using a process of deciphering meaning employed by human children.

Rico’s amazing talents were demonstrated in experiments carried out by psychologists from the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

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