Word: hare
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...What’s novel about this study was that we were trying to figure out why this was,” Hare said. “The punch line is that during domestication, there has been cognitive evolution...
According to Hare, who works in the biological anthropology department, this study is the first experimental demonstration of its kind...
...next step, Hare said, is to apply this knowledge to humans to discover how people understand each other—what Hare calls “social problem solving...
...first, Hare thought dogs might have retained their ability to read body language from their wolf ancestors, whose survival depended on knowing which way a deer would jump. He also considered the possibility that dogs learn how to read human cues over the course of their lives...
...investigate the question, Hare put food into one of several containers and then showed the containers to animals. A human indicated the container with food either by pointing, touching or looking at it, and researchers then watched to see if the animals chose the correct container...