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Cats or dogs? This is one of the questions debated for years. Here's another fact about dogs that might change your mind about which pet to adopt. You trust your dog, but does he trust you?
Our site loves facts - especially animal facts. A recent study showed that dogs can analyze a person's reliability and we want to share this information with our readers! Dogs, as true detectives, can tell us whether or not we trust someone else.
The study was conducted by Akiko Takaoka of Kyoto University in Japan. The scientist and his colleagues wanted to know if the dog would trust the person who lied to him. The researchers divided the experiment into three parts. They wanted to see if a dog could understand if a person was untrustworthy or not.
The group of scientists say the research has potential impact on behavioral studies of dogs. The study tells us that dogs prefer this world to be certain, according to John Bradshaw of the University of Bristol.
In the experiment, dog owners first point to a bowl with food. The dog was running towards her. Then a container without food is directed. The dogs were tricked into approaching the container.
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It was previously known that dogs flee to something indicated by their owner. Thus, dogs are supposed to be able to understand human gestures.
The third time the dogs did not follow the pointing hand. They didn't believe the liars. 34 dogs took part in the experiment, and they all showed the same results, according to the Animal Cognition Journal. Dogs will use their past experience to know that a person is unreliable.
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Other research indicates that dogs also control how other people interact with their owners. In one experiment, dog owners asked people for help. After that, people tried to give the dogs a treat. The animals surprised us!
Dogs will not deal with people who have behaved badly or rudely towards their owners. They preferred to be fed by those who helped them. Even those who did nothing in response to begging were welcome. But rude and aggressive people could not win the trust of dogs.
Another study from Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews reported that dogs clearly read communication between their owners and strangers. In the experiment, the dog owners asked for a little help from two groups of strangers. The dogs demonstrated a good understanding of social rules. They avoided people who mistreated their owners.
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It has been proven before that dogs are able to read our gestures and facial expressions. Now we know more about them, and they're smarter than we thought! They can decipher our gestures and also decide if they want to follow social cues.
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