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Cats are better at word association than human babies, study finds
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Cats are better at word association than human babies, study finds

Cats perform better than toddlers on a simple measure of language comprehension. The research, published October 4 in the journal Scientific reportsfound that cats make associations between pictures and words about four times faster than human toddlers.

Language is the most important tool humans use to communicate. But the ability to understand speech is not unique to Homo sapiens. Some monkeys associate spoken words with written symbols or imageswhile African Gray Parrots Can Understand and Respond to Voice Instructions. Dogs, on the other hand, have been trained to understand and respond to simple vocabulary.