How many words does the average dog understand? According to Dr. Coren, they understand 165, though with training, some understand more than 1,000 — including differentiating between verbs and nouns. The video shares research into what dogs understand. Do they really understand the words, the emotion, or other body language?

Concepts

animal behavior, animal adaptations, animal sounds

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Challenge scholars to record their dogs and test others who live in their homes to know what the dog is saying
• Research the domestication of dogs

Classroom Considerations

• Video requires no prior knowledge

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes closed captioning in English, Dutch, and Vietnamese
• Engaging and high interest video holds viewers' attention

Cons

• None