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Title: Dogs able to detect emotions in human faces: Austrian researchers
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Published: Feb 13, 2015
Author: staff
Post Date: 2015-02-13 00:58:59 by Tatarewicz
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VIENNA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Dogs are able to distinguish between different emotions in human faces by sight, researchers from the Clever Dog Lab at Vienna' University of Veterinary Medicine found, Austrian media reported on Thursday.

Austria Press Agency reported that researchers Corsin Mueller and Ludwig Huber showed 20 dogs both a happy face and an angry face on a touch screen. In order for them to focus on smiling teeth or folds from frowning, they were first shown only the eye and mouth areas during training exercises.

The dogs were then separated into two groups, with a practice phase where each group was shown either a happy or an angry face only. Most of the animals were able to tell the difference, even after the practice phase where completely new faces were shown.

The researchers said they could see this as the group shown the happy faces touched their screens with their paws in about one third the time the group shown the angry faces did in order to complete the exercise, the latter group showing a reluctance and thus a recognition of an unhappy face.

They said it did not make a difference if they were only shown the upper or lower half of the face.

The most likely reason for their ability to recognize the difference between emotions most likely comes from their experience in normal life, they said, and could also stem from the thousands of years of relationship between humans and dogs in which the dogs have learned to understand non-verbal communication. Editor: Mu Xuequan


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They said it did not make a difference if they were only shown the upper or lower half of the face.

Could mean telepathy plays a role.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

They must have never owned a dog? Pooches can tell if owners are glaring or smiling at them -- they glare and smile too. Dogs are more human than people. :-) There's yet another touching dog story at freedomsphoenix.com just now.

I love it when science announces these discoveries. My favorite thing about science is when it strokes its beard and reports that it has yet to determine why animals play together -- what mysterious genetic factor drives them to it, what it does to shore up their survival!

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-02-13   1:27:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)

Once again an indication the dog communicates telepathically and is able to tell which direction the t-signal is coming from. Maybe modulated neutrinos.

Loyal dog tracks down owner to hospital 20 blocks from home

From: news.com.au

Sissy found Nancy Franck in a hospital room 20 blocks away. Source: Supplied

THEY say that dogs can sense when you’re down.

And this miniature schnauzer must have known something was wrong when her owner went into hospital for surgery.

So the pup travelled an incredible 20 blocks from home to find her on the ward. .

The miniature schnauzer made an epic journey to reach her owner. Source: Supplied

Nancy Franck was recovering from surgery when Sissy appeared on the ward. No one can work out how the dog found her way there, but the unexpected visit brought an instant smile to her owner’s face.

“That was great, just being able to see her,” Mrs Franck told KCRG. “That was perfect. I’m glad she thought of it.

“I don’t know how she found the right door or did any of that herself.”

The pet owner’s husband, Dale, had been worrying all day after the dog had disappeared from their Cedar Rapids home. “She had never run away before,” he said.

The couple live around 20 blocks from Mercy Medical Center, with Sissy and their other miniature schnauzer, Barney.

Hospital security guard Samantha Conrad couldn’t believe her eyes when she spotted the wandering pooch. “We looked up and there was this dog just that was just running across the lobby,” she said. “We started looking at the tags and it had the address and we saw how far away this dog lived.

“It was quite an amazing journey that this dog made.”

Mrs Frank had been in hospital for about two weeks when Sissy turned up.

The family had never taken Sissy to the hospital, although Mrs Franck works next door at the Hall Perrine Cancer Center, and the dog had been in the car when the family had dropped her off.

But that doesn’t explain how she knew exactly where her owner was.

“She wanted to go see her mom,” said Mr Franck.

Mrs Franck was recovering from surgery when her pooch appeared. Source: Supplied

Tatarewicz  posted on  2015-02-13   22:29:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tatarewicz (#2)

You know, if you add up all the modes of intelligence animals and even plants have that humans can't dream of, we start to look even more cretinous than we do already. Animals can sense an earthquake or tsunami coming -- how do they do it? They don't need any sex education. How does a dog know how to respond to bitches' pheromones, never having witnessed the act or whatever? It seems clear they can see ghosts too. And of course they have no instinct for the destruction of their own selves species like people do -- quite the opposite.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-02-18   6:19:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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