A senior sheepdog has learned sign language for herding. Nine-year-old Peggy, a border collie from the U.K., lost her hearing and was handed over to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

The nine-year-old border collie has learnt to understand her owners’ hand signals (Picture: SWNS) A deaf dog whose owners gave her to the RSPCA because she could no longer herd sheep has been taught ...

A 10-year-old Norfolk collie in the UK is winning hearts after learning sign language. Peggy, who was a working sheepdog, was given to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to ...

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But that's not the case for border collie Peggy. Her life as a sheepdog appeared to be over when, at the age of nine, her hearing became so bad that she ...

The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other animals. Many people would probably intuitively equate speech and language. However, cognitive science ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

A senior sheepdog has learned sign language for herding. Nine-year-old Peggy, a border collie from the U.K., lost her hearing and was handed over to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...