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Rico (December 13, 1994 – 2008) was a border collie dog who made the news after being studied by animal psychologists Juliane Kaminski and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig after his owners reported that he understood more than 200 simple words. Kaminski et al. wrote in Science that these claims were justified: Rico retrieved an average of 37 out of 40 items correctly. Rico could also remember items' names for four weeks after his last exposure.[1]
- ^ Kaminski, Juliane; Josep Call; Julia Fischer (11 June 2004). "Word Learning in a Domestic Dog: Evidence for "Fast Mapping"" (PDF). Science. 304 (5677): 1682–3. Bibcode:2004Sci...304.1682K. doi:10.1126/science.1097859. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15192233. S2CID 31901162. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2013. Retrieved January 2, 2013.