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This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute.

If you need help, hurting some sheep or retrieving a stick, you can count on your

canine companion. Because dogs always seem to be keen on lending a paw.

But only if their partner is a person.

When it comes to cooperating with one another, dogs are truly lost.

And instead, it's wolves who've mastered the art of teamwork.

That's according to a study in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For thousands of years, humans have been breeding dogs that can do all sorts of neat tricks. And because Pups aim to please us,

we've come to think that domestication is somehow boosted dogs powers of

cooperation. But researchers in Austria have been wondering whether that notion could be barking up the wrong tree.

Because left to their own devices, dogs are bigger loners than wolves.

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