A new study shows that dogs and young human babies both make the same classic error in a famous psychology experiment — while wolves raised by people do not....Adam Miklosi of Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, is interested in how dogs have evolved to live with people, so he decided to see how dogs and their wild relatives, human-raised wolves, would do on this test. In their experiment, wolves were generally not misled by what they had seen humans do before, according to a report in Science. They'd make a beeline for the right hiding place. But dogs would act like a 10-month-old baby, going to screen A even though they'd just seen someone put the toy behind screen B.
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