Mood readers: Dogs have
evolved to interpret human
moods
Posted on 10/30/2008 7:33:28 AM PDT by yankeedame
Mood readers: Dogs have
evolved to interpret human
moods
It will come as no surprise to dog lovers, but man's best friend is remarkably good at detecting our moods.
A study has shown that dogs look for signs of anger, irritation or happiness in faces in exactly the same way that people do.
Scientists believe dogs have evolved their 'face reading' skills over thousands of generations as a way of avoiding an unwelcome kick.
They say that dogs deal differently with human faces from any other image, and that their method of processing the information is the same as humans use....
...Moods such as anger, pleasure and fright are expressed far more clearly on the right side of our faces than on the left....
Happy days: Scientists say dogs can tell when people
are happy or angry
The researchers showed images of people, dogs, monkeys and inanimate objects...and filmed the animals' head and eye movements.
When the dogs looked at pictures of animals, their eyes flicked evenly across the image. But when they were presented with human faces they tended to gaze to the left, just as people do....
...A second study found that dogs have a much stronger bias to the left when looking at angry faces rather than happy or neutral ones.
The discovery suggests it is far more important for dogs to gauge a human's mood quickly and accurately...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, the parasite worked its way in, for sure, but I still thought of him as a pig with fur.
But his big trick was "walking the girl". My dad would say, "Tycho, walk the girl!" and Tycho would look up at me with this expression on his face that seemed to say, "Isn't this hilarious?" Then, he'd take my hand or wrist in his mouth and lead me around the room.
The last year of Tycho's life overlapped with the first year of my rottweiler's life. They were smitten with each other, and they used to play and nap with each other. To this day, Ursa has a very gentle nature, with traits that sometimes remind me of Tycho. I wonder, especially considering the differences in each breed, if some of Tycho rubbed off on her. Sense of humor, sweetness, and a bizarre love of paper products.
Learning is not evolution, IMO.
Cat in the Kettle
Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat siamese
Yet the food tastes great so you don’t complain
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork
But Garfield’s on my fork
He’s purring here on my fork
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy,
They fry it real crisp in dough
Chow Lin asks if I wanted more,
As he was dialling up his buddy at the old pet store
I said not today, I lost my appetite,
There’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight
I was sucking on a Rolaids and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boy
And that is when I knew
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I got to stop eating there at noon
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork
But it’s purring there on my fork
There’s a hair ball on my fork
yup, in essence evolution itself IS intelligent design.
“Now for the sad news (somewhat off-topic): I had to euthanize my old dog Rupert today.”
I’m sorry to hear about your loss. My Mocha Girl Dog will say a special woof prayer for you tonight after I break the news to her. Someday you will rejoin Rupert at the golden bridge.
I know you provided a wonderful life for Rupert and in time you will celebrate the good times. Until then, mourn for your loss......
Dang, you have a gutsy boy! My girl wouldn’t be anywhere near such a scary thing as the vacum cleaner.
oh i am so sad for you!
You brought up the topic of dogs and wolves. I have zero interest in that. I posted here on the topic of dogs and human facial expressions. Care to discuss that?
Yeah, he chewed the cord off so I had to buy a new one. Last night, he was chewing on the old one again. He just started doing it so I’m really confused why.
God bless you, what a heartwarming story!
Is it a large dog? If so, is he 2-2.5 years old? If so, then my guess would be rebellion. If not, then I have no clue....they might be able to read our minds, but I can’t read their minds.
You posted your objection to the use of the term evolution about dogs.
Evolution is the only available scientific explanation for how wolves became dogs.
You obviously cannot supply an alternate explanation, yet object to the scientists use of the common explanation.
Do you withdraw your criticism? Do you offer a different explanation? Or do you think scientists shouldn’t use scientific explanations that offend you?
He’s still a pup, 10.5 months. Its an attention thing, I’m sure of it.
Dogs didn’t evolve.
Dogs are breeding experiments conducted by humans to pull the traits out that they wanted from Wolves.
Dogs are genetically engineered.
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