Dogs are also 'allergic' to injustice

Play handshake? Okay ! Dogs love to play this game, as long as the rules are fair .

Seeing your friend being fed, the dog on the left refused to continue the game.(Photo: Tempsreel.nouvelobs.com)

The dogs are not happy at all when they are treated unfairly and they show this attitude to their owners by refusing to continue the game.

That's what the research of researchers at the University of Vienna (Austria) showed. Scientist Friederike Rang and his colleagues recruited about 30 dogs from different breeds to experiment in order to understand their reaction when a person came in front of his hand to catch them.

Two dogs are standing next to each other. After raising his foot "shaking hands", only one of the two uncle received the food, the other dog began to show signs of irritation and then refused, refusing to raise his leg again and again.

Meanwhile, when conducting experiments with a dog alone, not receiving food did not affect his attitude, Range said.

According to scientists' conclusions, it can be seen that the appearance of the second dog plus unequal treatment caused stress and discomfort in the animal.

Equal and fair treatment is an essential foundation of human society and this is also the factor that helps maintain long-term relations between people. For primates such as the monkey family of Capucin, studies have also demonstrated that there is a spirit of equality in this animal community, although it is not as rigid as in society. human.

Similarly, dogs have now shown that they are sensitive to injustice.