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An experiment conducted to compare the interspecific communication skills of dogs and wolves showed that dogs have greater ability to decipher finger-pointing than wolves do. This proves that the dog’s ability was not inherited from his ancestor but rather was developed while evolving alongside humans.

In the experiment, a dog was given two opaque containers, an empty one and one with food inside it. A person pointing to the food container allowed the dog to find the food more quickly. Dogs trust humans to such an extent that if someone were to point to the wrong container, the dog would choose it—even though his strong sense of smell clearly tells him which container is the food container.