Source: Ben McLeod, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I got a note from Pam Lee who lives in Vancouver, Canada. She described some interesting behavior displayed by her 3-year-old Alaskan Malamute, Icy.

There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly any studies have shown that animals are also capable of intransitive ...