Your dog is as good at maths as a two-year-old child, say top boffins
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dailystar.co.ukdog. According to top boffins, the average pooch is better at maths than a two-year-old child. It could explain why your beloved mutt casts an angry glance your way when you pop fewer treats in its bowl.
For decades, scientists have been trying to discover if dogs can count and do simple maths.Like their human owners, dogs are great at numerosity - estimating the number of things in a group, for example how many dogs are in a park.In tests carried out by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, it was observed that dogs’ understanding of numerical quantity lights up the same brain activity as in a human, in the parietal cortex.Dogs are opportunistic and will snatch food closest to them, reports the Mirror.But researchers noticed that if two.
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