Memory of Fido dog

Call your beloved dog name so he can imagine your face. That is the conclusion of the most recent study that suggests that dogs have the ability to analyze in their heads when listening to its owner.

Over 10,000 years since domestic dogs have been domesticated from their ancestors, this man's good friend has constantly developed social skills to coexist with humans.

When compared to wolves or even gibbons, the cranes appear to be superior to gestures that are very human. Especially a few breeds of dogs are able to find food hiding places. Scientist Ikuma Adachi and colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan have also suggested that dogs are able to recognize portraits of many different people.

(Photo: frontrangeliving) To conduct the investigation, researchers recruited more than 28 dogs to join with their owners. During each test, the owner or someone familiar with it will sit behind. screen of a computer used to check how the dog is about 1m. The researchers will then play a video recording in which the owner and a stranger will name the dog five times through the image of the speaker on the test machine. Then, they delete all the images on the screen to the owner and the other stranger. And the camera will record the dog's reaction.

When the owner's voice comes out that matches his face, the dog will look at the screen for an average of 6 seconds, which is similar when the voice and face of the stranger are the same. However, if the voice is the master's face but the face on the screen is of a stranger (or vice versa), the dog will not pay attention to the screen for about 1 or 2 seconds.

This is explained that they see something unusual. A similar experiment was conducted to analyze the infant's face recognition ability. Adachi also hypothesized that the owner's voice made his familiar image appear in the heads of the dogs. This leads to embarrassment when the face of another person appears instead of its master. Adachi and colleagues published their findings in the Journal of Animal Knowledge published in January.

'This is a good experiment and brings some interesting things.' Brian Hare - anthropologist of the Max Planck Institute for Human Evolution in Leipzig, Germany said. The results also show that dogs are capable of repeating some of the intricate human gestures in an amazing way. Hare said 'They have the image of the owner in mind, think of these images and take actions based on the images they see' .

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