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Most dogs don't demonstrate extraordinary object-name learning, but researchers have studied a small group of unusually talented dogs capable of remembering large numbers of toy names.
Some have learned more than 100 object labels and can retrieve a requested toy from a collection after hearing its name.
Research suggests this exceptional ability is rare rather than something expected from every dog.
For certain dogs, a toy box isn't simply a pile of objects—many individual items can have their own learned names.
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