Study of scientists from the University of Arizona proved that puppies are programmed to communicate with people from birth. They appear with “humanoid” social skills that allow them to communicate with people from an early age, and not to learn this later, writes Daily Mail with reference to the magazine Current Biology.
Researchers have found that even before the puppies left litter, they can listen to people following such signals of people as index gestures. But they need a little more time to respond and respond to them. According to the leading author of the study of Dr. Emily Bray from the University of Arizona, genetics explained more than 40 percent of various ways, as puppies can follow human gestures, as well as variations of how long they enter visual contact with people during tasks that assess the interest of puppies to people .
Dr. Bray and her team studied the behavior of 375 eight-week puppies, who previously did not communicate with people alone. It turned out that puppies are born with the ability to respond to a person initiated by a person, but he independently initiate it later. Previous studies have shown that the dog’s brain processes the language like human, and the right side deals with emotions, and the left handles the meaning, and when there is a complete harmony between the hemispheres and there is no contradictions in the interpretation of the signals, the animal is happily.
“We show that puppies will be reciprocating the human social signal and successfully use the information provided by a person in a social context, from the ever after early age. For example, even before the puppies left their relatives to live with a man. These Data suggests that dogs are biologically prepared for communication with people. From an early age, they demonstrate social skills that have a strong genetic component, “explained Bray. She added that the findings of scientists point to an important part of the domestication history: animals with a tendency to communicate with people could be selected in the populations of wolves, which gave birth to dogs.
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