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...dog owner will tell you that canines are compassionate and can sense human emotions. But a new study suggests that dogs' emotions are closer to ours than once thought. According to a study published Dec. 10 in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, along with the most primal emotions - anger, fear - dogs also feel a simple form of envy...
...reveal Fido's green-eyed monster, Range and three other scientists at the University of Vienna put together pairs of domestic dogs, each accompanied by an experimenter. Both dogs in each pair were given commands to place their paws in the experimenter's hands, and when they obeyed, they were given a reward - a piece of bread or sausage. But when one dog wasn't given a reward for obeying, and the other dog in the room was, the unrewarded dog would refuse to respond to the repeated commands. The scientists measured the dogs' responses by how many times they...
...dogs' reactions to the unfair distribution of rewards is called "inequity aversion" - when an animal acts to stop perceived inequalities within its social group - and it's a defining characteristic of social, or cooperative, species. "They wanted the same reward for the same work," says Paul Morris, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Portsmouth who specializes in animal behavior. Morris is quick to explain that the study's results aren't anthropomorphic: "I'm not saying that dog jealousy is precisely like human jealousy." Instead, he says, the dogs likely experienced a primitive form of envy...
...Garber says. “It emphasizes the ways in which the plays of Shakespeare are living things that grow and change over time.” Though a respected Shakespearean scholar, Garber has also tackled many controversial yet disparate subjects, ranging from animal studies in “Dog Love” to the discussion of a new form of fetish in “Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses.” But despite her varied passions, the premises of all her works are rooted in a common purpose...
...Chiappini procuring both the traditional thin-crust and the exotic “Rustic Cheese” pizzas, Bilotti took a bite of each and then “sauced up” the employee lounge.Luckily, Chiappini had saved Massachusetts’s most-celebrated tradition for last: the dog track. Since election day, dog racing’s days have been numbered. [2] The drunken masses in the Bay State’s voting booths have decided they love marijuana and income taxes more than family entertainment and jobs for dogs. One can only assume the thousands of greyhounds...