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Can Your Dog’s Tail Wag Reveal Their Emotions? Discover the Science Behind Tail-Wagging.
The Science of Tail Wagging: Emotional Responses and Brain Lateralization in Dogs Understanding animal behavior gives deep insights into their emotions and brain processes. Two important studies show how dogs’ tail-wagging reflects their emotions and influences other dogs. Asymmetric Tail-Wagging Responses to Different Emotive Stimuli (2007) In 2007, Quaranta, Siniscalchi, and Vallortigara examined dogs’ tail-wagging…
How to Recognize if Your Dog Likes Tummy Rubs
How to Recognize if Your Dog Likes Tummy Rubs, Petting (and Other Helpful Tips)! Humans often misinterpret dog signals. We think a tail wag means a dog is happy, that all dogs love to be petted, or a dog rolling over on his back wants a tummy rub. Does your dog like belly rubs? Find out. Relaxed dogs look loose…
Dogs’ facial expressions give them away
As dog owners, it is no surprise to us that a dog’s behavior changes according to the situation they are in. But researchers in Japan have discovered some subtleties in dogs’ facial expressions we may not know about. Using a high-speed camera to study the subtleties in 12 different dogs they learned that there is significant interaction between the…
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[VIDEO] What Everyone Ought to Know About Petting Dogs
If we like dogs, we love to pet them. And we take it for granted that dogs like being petted, too. In fact some studies show that pet petting can be relaxing for both animals and humans. But do all of them love it? Do they always enjoy it every time? How can we…
I’d Rather Play with a Game Winner than a Contest Winner
More on social cognition: The takeaway from the paper: Social cognition in the domestic dog: behaviour of spectators towards participants in interspecific games is that spectator dogs preferred to approach the winner of the games opposed to approaching either winner or loser of a competition. This is a really interesting study on a number of levels. But…