http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/2012/08/24/ferrets-mans-other-best-friend/
"If a human points his or her finger at something, a dog might infer that
there’s hidden food, while the chimpanzee remains more or less clueless about
the meaning behind that sort of non-verbal communication. As dogs have evolved
in a social space occupied by human social partners, they’ve gained the unique
ability not only to comprehend human social-communicative cues, but perhaps
even to manipulate humans, and certainly to initiate communicative interactions
with humans."
Interesting research on domestication.
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