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...don’t bite,” one of the Tigers said while asking the crowd to close in on the stage...
...short, Bekoff was able to show--after at least a decade of painstaking observation and analysis--that canine play is actually a complex social interaction in which the participants constantly signal their intentions and check to make sure their behavior is correctly interpreted. Dogs that cheat--promising a playful bite but delivering a harsh one, for example--tend to be ostracized...
...impossible for everything they do to be hardwired, with no conscious thought. It really is." And once again, he cites play as perhaps the most obvious example. Play between dogs involves extremely complex, precise behavior, he says. "They're really close, they're mouthing, but they don't bite their own lips; they almost never bite the lip of the other animal hard, nor the eyes, nor the ears." And that requires communication and constant feedback. "Just think of basketball players faking left and going right," says Bekoff. "There's no way you could be doing that by pure instinct...
...play bow, his guess that it meant more than just "Let's play" turned out to be correct. "It says, 'I want to play with you' but also 'I'm sorry I bit you so hard' or 'I'm going to bite you hard, but don't take it seriously.'" It even works between species: Bekoff has seen wild coyotes bow to dogs--and vice versa--before they engage in something like play. "At least they don't fight," says Bekoff. "The play bow changes the whole mood...
...Rudman on the broad ground that only officials who can be removed by the President should exercise Executive powers, a ruling that they say could jeopardize the independence of more than a dozen regulatory agencies ranging from the Federal Communications Commission to the Federal Reserve Board. "Independent agencies would bite the dust," warns Stanford University Law Professor Gerald Gunther. When Administration Lawyer Fried tried to assure the court last week that such arguments were simply a scare tactic, he got a quick reply from Justice O'Connor. "Mr. Fried," she said, "I'll confess you scared...