Posted on 08/21/2008 6:11:16 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Dogs are becoming more intelligent and are even learning morals from human contact, scientists claim.
They say the fact that dogs' play rarely escalates into a fight shows the animals abide by social rules.
During one study, dogs which held up a paw were rewarded with a food treat.
When a lone dog was asked to raise its paw but received no treat, the researchers found it begged for up to 30 minutes.
But when they tested two dogs together but rewarded only one, the dog which missed out soon stopped playing the game.
Dr Friederike Range, of the University of Vienna, who led the study, said: 'Dogs show a strong aversion to inequity. I would prefer not to call it a sense of fairness, but others might.'
The first Canine Science Forum in Budapest was attended by more than 200 experts to discuss what is going on inside the mind of a dog.
Human's inclination to invest dogs with human-like states of mind isn't as unscientific as it might appear as they really do have some remarkable mental skills that allow them to thrive in their strange habitat - our world.
Domestic dogs evolved from grey wolves as recently as 10,000 years ago since when their brains have shrunk so a wolf-sized dog has a brain around 10 per cent smaller than its wild ancestor.
Dr Peter Pongracz from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and colleagues have produced evidence dog barks contain information that people can understand.
They found even people who have never owned a dog can recognise the emotional 'meaning' of barks produced in various situations, such as when playing, left alone and confronted by a stranger.
His team has now developed a computer program that can aggregate hundreds of barks recorded in various settings and boil them
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The lefties and evos probably think this elevates dogs
when all it really does is devalue humans.
//when all it really does is devalue humans//
Maybe thats the underlying point.
Living with humans has taught dogs morals, say scientists
Wha......are they f'ing retarded or something? Thanks for the ping, but I'm not really interested in reading nonsense like this.
Like I said.....
And evos wonder why people don’t take scientists seriously.
Every one wonders why dogs pee on car tires.
If you had a dog’s nose, it would be like a dotted line
right back home.
I’ve heard it said that if a man could suddenly smell as much as a dog it would drive him insane.
Imagine, you’d know when every female in the neighborhood was in heat.
Do y'all make sure he gets some food once in a while?
“That and having a lot of ammo on hand...”
Now if you could train your dog to police up you brass...
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.
I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a guy who was behind her. Horrified, she asked if I'd ended up in the hospital in that condition because I had been poisoned. I told her no; it was because I'd been sitting in the street licking my gonads and a car hit me.
I thought one guy was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard as he staggered out the door.
I tried that story once, with ‘chased a car and ran into a bus stop sign’ at the end.
Keepin’ the water bowl full is more important in these cases.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Thanks for the ping!
Interesting observations.
One wonders what a dog would do with morals, since the sum total of their societal obligations is emptying their food dish, and depositing the processed remains out of doors.
Note: this topic is from 8/21/2008. Thanks Alex Murphy.
Seek a 12 step program. You’ve already completed the first step admitting there’s a problem.
Then why are so many humans amoral?
I think they’ve got this backwards. just sayin...
An elementary biology class would teach you the value of this Lamark nonsense.
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