Experimental layout:
Securing the common language:
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Study examples:
Examples of study stimuli. Top row: dog images, bottom row: non-dog images
Posted on 01/01/2016 7:11:33 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Experimental layout:
Securing the common language:
Study examples:
Examples of study stimuli. Top row: dog images, bottom row: non-dog images
Fascinating dog study ping from the Scientific American.
All of the dogs used in the study vary mostly in coloration, but still have the basic “dog” shape to them.
I wonder what a study would show if they used some of the less wolf-like looking dogs—for instance, pugs, shih tzus, or chihuahuas?
I never should have let my subscription lapse.
My German Shepherd can recognize other dogs on sight and if she feels threatened, she chuffs at them.
Yup, dogs check out other dogs and they also sniff each other’s scent upon meeting.
Dogs are acknowledge fellow dogs even more than acknowledge other humans.
Just because they occasionally hump your leg doesn’t mean they don’t know who other dogs are
We had a wonderful Cocker who I noticed on Super Bowl Day had stopped in front of the kitchen TV. Saw her back and tail stiffen, then the low-level grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . as she was watching The Puppy Bowl
My dog jumps up every time he sees a dog on television. I don’t really notice some of the dogs in commercials till he spots them.
His other favorite animals are horses. He loves to see them on television. He doesn’t much care for monkeys, chimps, and apes.
No, no. They used many types of dog in the study. The study participents resembled each other, but the subjects they were asked to identify all looked different.
Nothing, they couldn't stop barking and jumping up and down.......
I think mine recognizes me as a dog.
Dogs have the uncanny ability to “see” more than just an image. They can see the aura that surrounds all living creatures. They can tell if the creature is friendly, aggressive, afraid,dishonest or just up to no good. They rely on much more than just an image.
I’m not at all surprised. Dogs can recognize dogs when they see one just as we can. But interesting experiment.Of course with dogs the olfactory stimulus is as important (more important?) than sight, but sight obviously suffices.
I did not need Scientific American to tell me that my dog, who jerks my arm off upon seeing a dog 1/4 mile away, can recognize dogs, and squirrels, and deer - and knows the difference. One is for play - the others are food.
Good point, and the study should have. But I think the dogs still would have recognized their brethren over non-canines.
When I was a kid the neighbors had a Great Dane and a Dachshund. They were inseparable. Watching them go down the street was amusing. As the final joke the Dane was female and the Dachshund male.
When they went from a weekly to a monthly the content seemed to decline.
My girlfriend’s poodle simply looks at me and says “snack”. I’m not sure if she thinks I’m a dog, think’s she’s a human, or doesn’t care as long as I’m there to serve her.
Man I love pups! They are smart and are truly man’s best friend.
That sounds very "new age", but I believe you may be on to something. Before I ever owned a dog (a stray foisted upon me by my husband) I was afraid of dogs. I used to pass out campaign flyers for various candidates in my neighborhood, and the dogs would bark furiously at me, charge me, threaten me, jump on me.
I took in this little Schnauzer that had been abandoned on our neighborhood. From then on, the other dogs left me alone -- even though they had never seen me with my new dog. They just ignored me whereas before they would charge at me. I think that they knew, somehow, that I was no loger afraid of them.
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