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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2016 WORLD IN BRIEF Good boy! Dogs may know what you’re saying Associated Press IS buried thousands in mass graves HARDAN, Iraq — Sur- rounded by lames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the men in his family die. On the other side of the mountain, a survivor peered through binoculars as the hand- cuffed men of neighboring vil- lages were shot and then buried by a waiting bulldozer. For six days he watched as the extrem- ists illed one grave after another with his friends and relatives. Between them, the two scenes of horror on Sinjar mountain contain six burial sites and the bodies of more than 100 people, just a small fraction of the mass graves Islamic State extremists have scattered across Iraq and Syria. The Associated Press has doc- umented and mapped 72 of the mass graves, the most compre- hensive survey so far, with many more expected to be uncovered as the Islamic State group’s ter- ritory shrinks. In Syria, AP has obtained locations for 17 mass graves, including one with the bodies of hundreds of members of a single tribe all but extermi- nated when IS extremists took over their region. For at least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in terri- tory too dangerous to excavate, oficials do not even guess the number of dead. In others, the estimates are based on memories of traumatized survivors, Islamic State propaganda and what can be gleaned from a cursory look at the earth. Still, even the known victims buried are staggering — from 5,200 to more than 15,000. Sinjar mountain is dotted with mass graves, some in terri- tory clawed back from IS after the group’s onslaught against the Yazidi minority in August 2014. Comic Wilder kept serious side of camera LOS ANGELES — Revered as a comedic and storytell- ing genius by Hollywood’s top entertainers, Gene Wilder was a humble man who downplayed his comic gifts, was a serious director and remained deferen- tial to his longtime collaborator, Mel Brooks. “I am him in fantasy,” Wilder once said of playing the lead in Brooks’ ilms. After Wilder’s death was announced Monday, Brooks called his colleague “one of the truly great talents of our time.” “He blessed every ilm we did together with his special magic and he blessed my life with his friendship,” Brooks said in a statement. Wilder died Sunday night of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at age 83. His nephew, Jordan Walker-Pearlman, said Wilder was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, but kept the condition private so as not to disappoint fans. Borbala Ferenczy/MR Research Center Some trained dogs involved in a study to investigate how dog brains pro- cess speech sit around a scanner in Budapest, Hungary. Scientists have found that dogs use the same brain areas as humans to process language. A study published in the journal Science showed that dogs process words with the left hemisphere and use the right hemisphere to process intonation. BERLIN — Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man’s best friend really does understand some of what we’re saying. Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs as they were listen- ing to their trainer speaking to determine which parts of the brain they were using. They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere, while intonation was processed with the right hemisphere — just like humans. 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