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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second Science. I'm Jason Goldman.

Let's say you have a dog, or maybe you're watching a friend's pup.

You have a treat in your hand, so you have the dog's attention.

Then you put the treat into a dog-proof box and let them figure it out.

What do you think the dog will do?

If you're a dog owner, you probably know.

Spike or Spot or Miss Fluffy will probably try in vain for a while.

But soon they'll probably turn back to you with those puppy dog eyes, with the look that's

both hurt, why would you make

it so hard for them after all, and pleading.

That, it turns out, is a sophisticated cognitive phenomenon called referential communication.

It's an attempt to shift the human's attention towards the

problem. And dogs, as it turns out, aren't the only species who can do this. In 2003,

a Hungarian biologist named Adam McCloshi tested this ability with an experiment. He gathered

a handful of dogs and a group of wolves. Both groups of canines had

been hand-raised from birth by people in much the same way. He put a piece of food inside of that

doggy-proof box. The wolves kept trying and failing to get the food inside, And we already know what the dogs did. Alan

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