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Study shows Dogs take cues from humans...(duh?)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/09/doglogic_ani.html?category=animals&guid=2007100912 4530about
The article is itneresting but certainly most dog owners know that dogs take their cues from us. Its what made them good pets in the first place. |
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Study shows Dogs take cues from humans...(duh?)
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BethInAK wrote: The article is itneresting but certainly most dog owners know that dogs take their cues from us. Its what made them good pets in the first place. Well, we've bred them for it for millenia. But still, sometimes the role of research is to nail to down the obvious (or to discover that what's "obvious" is not, in fact, true). Foundational work provides a starting point and a reference for additional work. However, this goes beyond that kind of obvious stuff and goes to inference, which is pretty cool. In my own house Cinder doesn't like Eclipse and doesn't want to go outside when Eclipse is out (Eclipse plays really rough), and so before she goes out she looks around. If she sees Eclipse she'll go out, and if she doesn't see Eclipse she'll wait. That is to say, she reasons that if Eclipse is inside then she's not outside. That's a really obvious thing for humans to figure out but it does require more advanced thinking than I expected of dogs. And while I love Cinder to pieces she's not even very smart. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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