Why your pets really DON’T remember being told off: Average short-term memory span of animals is 27 seconds!
There’s a reason why telling your dog off for bad behaviour doesn’t always work. Compared to humans, animals don’t remember specific events, but instead tend to retain useful information that could help them survive. Dogs forget an event within two minutes, while chimpanzees will forget at around 20 seconds. Baboons, pig-tailed macaques, and squirrel monkeys, […]
