Dogs have the potential to see if human failure is intentional
by Josepha Erlacher
People who have inadvertently stepped on the dog's tail may be worried, 'Does the dog know that it is not intentional?' A study by Britta Shoe Neman and colleagues at the University of Göttingen shows that dogs may be able to tell whether their owner's behavior is intentional or not.
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Shoe Neman and colleagues conducted an experiment with 51 dogs and their owners to see if they could understand a person's intentions. In the experiment, a glass partition was placed between the dog and the owner, and the owner was instructed to feed the dog through the gap in the partition, but several times he was instructed to drop the food on purpose.
by Josepha Erlacher
Because the gap was narrow, the owner sometimes dropped the food on purpose, and sometimes he accidentally dropped the food. In both cases, dogs often went around the partition and came to eat food, but there was a difference in dog behavior between when they were dropped 'on purpose' and when they were dropped 'accidentally'. matter.
Click on the image below to watch a video of the dog's behavior when the owner accidentally drops food. After confirming that the food has fallen, the dog hesitates for a moment, but immediately goes around the partition and comes to eat.
by Judith Keller
This time, the state when the owner intentionally dropped the food. You can check it in the video by clicking the image. The owner shows the pretense of feeding, and intentionally drops the food on the floor and turns away from the dog. Then, unlike when the owner accidentally dropped the food, the dog stopped for about 5 seconds and then went around the partition.
by Judith Keller
When this experiment was conducted on all 51 groups, it was said that the time the dog stayed on the spot when the owner intentionally dropped the food was 1.3 times longer on average than when the owner accidentally dropped the food. In addition, there are a total of 13 dogs that 'fake' or 'sit' when the owner drops food, and 65% of the number of times 'fake' or 'sit' intentionally drops food. The result was that 12% accidentally dropped food and more than five times more when they intentionally dropped food.
'Because dogs are always looking at us carefully, they are very sensitive to subtle differences in behavior. They also understand what their owners were trying to do and what they failed to do. There seems to be. '
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