Dogs Remember Like Humans

BELGRADE - Your dog's memory works much more like yours than previously thought, according to a new study.

Writing in the journal Current Biology, researchers from the MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group in Budapest, Hungary, say that, like people, dogs can "remember and recall events from the past, even when those events didn't hold any particular importance at the time they occurred."

"The results of our study can be considered as a further step to break down artificially erected barriers between non-human animals and humans," said Claudia Fugazza, an author of the study. "Dogs are among the few species that people consider 'clever,' and yet we are still surprised whenever a study reveals that dogs and their owners may share some mental abilities despite our distant evolutionary relationship."

Testing dogs' memories is difficult since they are unable to...