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- Humans bred Williams Syndrome into Dogs, when we domesticated wolves. This is characterized by their tendency to love everyone.
- Dogs have the ability to pick up changes in your scent, this help them figure out how you are feeling.
- Due to long relationship between humans and dogs, dogs have evolved to understand human laughter.
- Originally Dogs were listed as not self aware animals because of failure in "Mirror Test". But since dogs are not visually oriented , a new test "sniff test" was developed, and it shows significant evidence of self awareness in dogs.
- Several studies have shown that dogs can learn up to 200 human words and they can have intellect equivalent of 3 year old human babies.
- Average life span of dogs is around 10-13 years. The longest living Dog breed is New Guinea singing dog which lives up to 18 years.
- English Bulldogs, ChowChow and Samoyed are some of the most expensive dog breeds. They can cost you around $6000 to $10,000.
- They can see in dark due to the presence of special membrane in their eyes called Tapetum Lucidum.
- Dogs can hear better than humans because they have twice as many ear muscles than us.
- Greyhound dogs are the fastest dog breed. They can run at a speed of 45 MPH.
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