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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dogs understand human perspective, say researchers [View all]
Source: BBC News
Dogs are more capable of understanding situations from a human's point of view than has previously been recognised, according to researchers.
They found dogs were four times more likely to steal food they had been forbidden, when lights were turned off so humans in the room could not see.
This suggested the dogs were able to alter their behaviour when they knew their owners' perspective had changed.
The study, published in Animal Cognition, conducted tests on 84 dogs.
The experiments had been trying to find whether dogs could adapt their behaviour in response to the changed circumstances of their human owners.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21411249
Looks like humans have trouble understanding others' perspectives more so than dogs.
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No, but she runs up to my husband and waves her paws around like she's doing karate moves, then runs
Neoma
Feb 2013
#38
i love animals and i think they are far more sentient than people realize or accept
samsingh
Feb 2013
#6
There is a NOVA episode that explorers (among other things) the "guilt" look from dogs
Thor_MN
Feb 2013
#39
No he's a mutt that looks alot like a small (90lb) St. Bernard, he's very very smart and tries
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#31
bullshit....dogs see with thier nose, are predators and opprotunistic scavangers...
Evasporque
Feb 2013
#48
So.... that's where my beer and summer sausage has been going! That little sneak!
Lint Head
Feb 2013
#51