“New Dogs, Old Tricks? Stray dogs can understand human cues” is an article which initially talks about dogs and their amazing trained ability to comprehend human gestures. The writer refers to a recent study, at the time it was published, which indicates that dogs may be born with an innate understanding of human cues. Because of this, the article then questions if dogs are born knowing how to follow human directions. In fact, the study conducted on many untrained stray dogs from India consisted of placing two bowls of food in front of them and seeing if they’ll go to the bowl pointed to…