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...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...
...this test, wolves behaved much like chimpanzees, so Hare and his colleagues concluded dogs had not inherited their human recognition skill from their ancestors...
...when Hare tested young puppies, they consistently fared well on the test...