Goats make eye contact to humans like dogs

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Human infants, dogs, and horses are known to take the action of looking at the eyes of nearby people and attracting attention when they face problems that can not be solved by themselves. This behavior is particularly noticeable in dogs,Companion animalAs a result of being bred by humans for thousands of years, it is believed that the structure of the brain has changed. Experiments have proved that this eye contact technology also has domesticated goats.

Goats display audience-dependent human-directed gazing behaviors in a problem-solving task | Biology Letters
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/7/20160283

Video: These goats stare at men - when they want help | Science | AAAS
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/video-these-goats-stare-men-when-they-want-help

You can see how a goat makes eye contact with a human from the following movie.

These goats stare at men - when they want want help - YouTube


Dogs are known to see human eyes and communicate.


However, wolves close to dogs and tribes never take such action.


Christian Nawroth of the University of London Queen Mary's Biology, Chemistry and Science School has conducted an experiment to examine whether goats have eye contact using 32 goats. Experiment is to observe what kind of reaction will take when putting a goat and a human in the room and giving tasks that can not be solved.


The goat who examined the case placed in the middle of the room for a while knows that he is staring at his eyes to seek help for a person near you.


This is a case containing food adhering to the floor so as not to peel off, and any goat challenges to eat food first ... ...


When it is found that the case does not peel off, first of all, we look at the human eyes and try to eat food from the case again.


When deploying two human beings in the room ......


You can see that you have eye contact for both. Understanding the human eyes understands that some kind of assistance can be obtained.


It was thought that understanding the meaning of eye contact by domestic animation of a certain kind so far because it does not make eye contact much because jenneco in contact with a human as a pet do not do much eye contact. In recent years, it has been found that horses raised also make eye contact, and goats also learned eye contact technology as well. A scientist says that it is a research result that casts doubts on the conventional theory that "only certain kinds of animals can remember eye contact", and the change in cognitive behavior of animals by domestication extends to a wider variety of species It suggests that it might be.