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Dogs, like babies, detect subtle communication cues

2K views 6 replies 4 participants last post by  ames 
I would say dogs are WAY ahead of babies in the reading of subtle communication cues department. They (dogs) have survived/adapted/thrived for thousands of years by figuring out what we want and how we are feeling and what we want from them/how they can get what they want. Consummate professionals at this, they are. You can't fool them like you can a baby, either. Ask anyone who competes with dogs how hard it is to hide ring jitters from a dog. You can't. It's in your smell, it's in VERY subtle changes in your mannerisms that you are unaware of.
Cute vid! Digital TV has opened up a whole new world for dogs and tv. The old analog signals actually projected a series of 'frames' (still pictures) to make up the moving picture we saw on television (like those cartoons you can make yourself by drawing on paper, each one the next step in the movement, fan them and you get movement, animation. The problem with analog tv (for dogs) is that they have a higher 'flicker' rate than people do (flicker rate is the amount of time the eye refreshes the data being sent to the brain) thus they saw the blank spots in between frames that were imperceptible to people. Pretty annoying, I would imagine.... much like this post
 
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