Dogs Have The Brain Power And Vocal Cords To Talk, So Why Don't They?

Wolves have been carefully (and often unconsciously) molded into docile dogs over thousands of years of domestication, many of their wild instincts softened into something more in tune with the way Homo sapiens tend to operate. Yet despite their many human-adjacent behaviors, "man's best friend" still lacks one defining feature of our species: language. Why is that? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Scientists at the wonderfully named BARKS Lab at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary are continuing to look into the questions of whether domesticated dogs could ever develop the ability to talk and, if not, what skills they lack.

At first glance, the idea of investigating whether dogs can talk might sound frivolous, if