(CNN) Simply put, they are the world's top dogs. Researchers from Hungary are holding the Genius Dog Challenge , which pits six of the world's smartest dogs against one another to show who is able to best learn the names of new objects. The contest will be live-streamed on YouTube and Facebook"The Genius Dog Challenge is part of a bigger research project on language learning and processing in dogs," Dr. Claudia Fugazza, a canine behavior researcher at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, told CNN. "We have been searching for the past two years and a half for dogs that showed the ability to learn object names and we found that this seems to be a rare skill. While most dogs struggle to learn even only a few names, some rare individuals seem to be very talented at this and can learn multiple object names very easily."

Source: CNN November 11, 2020 18:41 UTC