In a study by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) published in the journal PLoS ONE , Katharina Kirchhofer and her colleagues have shown that dogs are more intelligent than chimpanzees when it comes to interpreting gestures and bringing an object to a human. it points to him . To demonstrate this, the researchers worked with 32 dogs and 20 primates who were asked the same task. Most of the dogs responded instantly, while none of the chimps was able to understand the request.
According to the authors of the experiment, despite being our closest "relatives", chimpanzees are not able to understand the communicative intentions of other subjects. However, human babies are capable of interpreting these types of commands from 14 months of age.
