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If you have a dog, you've probably tried to train it.

The basics, like sit and stay.

Plus, of course, not to go to the bathroom on your rugs.

And if your dog learns things quickly, you might start to think it's really smart.

But...

If you really want to know about dog intelligence, you'll have to look at non-dogs as well

to understand what's special to dogs and what is just typical of groups they belong to.

Stephen Lee, a retired professor of psychology from the University of Exeter in the UK.

He and colleagues looked at dog intelligence in an animal intelligence context

for a report in the journal, learning, and behavior.

Lee and his team looked at hundreds of published studies to compare dog cognition with that of

other animals.

They found that dogs are adept at picking up on social cues. They're good, for example,

at using human pointing or following human gaze, you're looking at what you're looking at.

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