Posted on 01/13/2016 5:26:46 PM PST by presidio9
Dogs really are man's best friend, it seems, as researchers have shown they can recognise emotions in humans by combining information from different senses.
They are the only creatures outside of humans who have been observed to have that ability.
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"Our study shows that dogs have the ability to integrate two different sources of sensory information into a coherent perception of emotion in both humans and dogs.
"To do so requires a system of internal categorisation of emotional states. This cognitive ability has until now only been evidenced in primates and the capacity to do this across species only seen in humans."
Co-author Professor Daniel Mills, from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln, said: "It has been a long-standing debate whether dogs can recognise human emotions. Many dog owners report anecdotally that their pets seem highly sensitive to the moods of human family members.
"However, there is an important difference between associative behaviour, such as learning to respond appropriately to an angry voice, and recognising a range of very different cues that go together to indicate emotional arousal in another.
"Our findings are the first to show that dogs truly recognise emotions in humans and other dogs.
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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Its one reason I stopped watching football - my dog couldn't take it.
I believe it. My dogs were always sad with me. It was if they just knew when I was not happy. I love them all.
Cats can too, they just don’t give a crap...
Dogs are great people.
No more than Cats do. In fact, the cats here only suggest what they need and I either get it for them or they get it themselves.
Cats rule, dogs follow.
So right. Dogs are remarkable tuned into their people.
How many of my tax dollars went to this ridiculous study?
LOL!!! Sooooo true...
Yes!
"Other than humans, dogs are the only creatures that have been shown to be able to read emotions across species"
What? Horses can’t?
Beasts have instincts and can adapt to their environment. Anthropomorphizing them will result in treating them as humans, which will criminalize medical testing and euthanasia on them. May be it will legalize aborting puppies.
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth???
"A team of animal behaviour experts and psychologists from the universities of Lincoln (UK) and Sao Paulo showed..."
“Cats can too,”
Abdo-lutely!
At least my dog knows when I am sleeping, she should be sleeping too. Unlike human babies....(there it is the reverse ;-) )
Most critter know when you are pissed.
Dogs know when you are happy, when you are sad, when you are not feeling well.
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