Happened to turn on the TV in the right time today-saw an interesting documentary on dogs and humans.
One of my favorite parts was about how dogs are the only animal that can read our body langague so well. The chimpanzee does not recognize the pointing of a finger as a help for showing under which cup the treat is-whereas the dog is interpreting that correct. The dog was even able to pick up where a persons eyes were looking and go there.
From here at least Finns can still see the documentary for until 14.3, the part with the chimpanzee is at about 20 min into the program.
Unfortunately I did not find that part on youtube but here is a small part of the documentary:
It's interesting that they have been following us for such a long time, perhaps that is why they have learned to know us so well. I wonder though if we understand dogs half as well as they understand us.
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