"We once again refused to believe that humans aren't the center of the universe, and were wrong. We'll now ignore it and continue believing that we're the only precious lifeform in the world."

[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

🙄 If it makes you happy I'll open the floor for comments by other species:

(this is a joke)

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago

That was actually a more interesting article than my gut feeling of "well, yeah, they can understand commands".

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Damnit, I’m gonna have to rename A-a-Ron because now I know he’s not getting the joke every time he’s naughty

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Instruct him that he needs to go down to O-shag-hennessey's office for being churlish

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Can we teach dogs Esperanto?

[–] yenahmik@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've always heard you should name a dog with words containing hard consonants, because they can differentiate them better than vowels and soft consonants. I wonder how that plays into the results of this study (and if what I've heard has a scientific basis to back it up).

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

That's why I named my dog Kskrrkh'T. Sometimes late at night I hear him fluent in ancient Latin.

[–] Zensate@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Bark bark Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam