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“Chances are that if these animals can detect cooperative tendencies in human actors, they also can in their fellow primates,” he says. Dogs’ long relationship with humans means they’ve evolved to be extremely sensitive to our behaviour – not just to the dog, but also to other hum...
When someone close to us dies, dogs can often be the friend we turn to the most for support. It's not uncommon for humans to say things to their dogs that
dogs and wolves have shared many traits that have linked them throughout the millennia. Thought to have been self-domesticating, dog ancestors found it advantageous to hang around human settlements. In return, humans found that these early dogs made good alarm systems and great hunting...
We used two questionnaires to investigate owners' opinion about (1) the emotions that humans can recognize in dogs and dogs can recognize in humans, and (2) the behavior elements that characterize certain emotions. The first questionnaire revealed that humans are reported to perceive a wide range...
Like humans, dogs use gaze to communicate, a trait not shared by their closest relatives, the wolves. In fact, dogs and humans excel at socializing with one another. Wolves and chimpanzees lack a similar relationship and can communicate only poorly with each other, raising the question of how...
How to Understand Dogs?Humans are good a understanding others'feelings from the sounds they make. A baby'slaughhe or she is happy. Similarly, we have no trouble62(know)that a dog'stells us61energetic bark is a sound of joy.In fact the earlier studies have shown we're good at telling...
kitchen. I examine one and thought it was a bedbug that my husband had brought home from one of his many work trips. We had two company’s come out and examine the bugs. They both said it was abat bug,cousin to the bed bug that usually does not feed on humans unless there host ...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
National Dog Day happens on the 26th of August to celebrate dogs. On this day you should let your dog know how important he or she is. Dogs are very important to every one of us. Of course us keep a dog as a pet. However, working dogs help many people every...