Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Kurt - SIN - Dogs Understand Fairness
The National Academy of Sciences did a study that showed dogs know how to be fair as reported in an NPR piece by Nell Green Fieldboyce on December 9, 2008. They looked at how dogs react when a buddy is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way. The dogs were normally happy to repeatedly give the paw whether they got a reward or not. But that changed if they saw that another dog was being rewarded with a piece of food while they received nothing. It tells people dogs have emotions.
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your story was very well but how come dogs have emotion. they beg beg but why
This sounds to me like another advance in other-then-human psychology, analogous to the studies done on language in animals. In a National Geographic last year there was an article about animals, such as dogs, being able to speak English. It was proposed that because some co-evolution has occurred, these animals have take on some properties of humans. Could this be the same type of changes?
Sorry this was not in the last post but this is the link to the National Geographic article spoken about in my last post: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text/5.
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