• Denjin@lemmings.world
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    Dogs brains activate the same regions when the see human faces that activate in our brains. These same regions don’t activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

    Dogs are far more in tune with us that they are with their own species.

    Some of the oldest human archaeological sites have dog remains among the humans. Domestication of the dog was going on far far earlier than the first evidence we have for domestication of the first food species.

    We have evolved together as two mutually symbiotic species.

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      13 hours ago

      These same regions don’t activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

      Probably because they use scent more than sight for being in tune with their own species.

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        4 hours ago

        Sent is just an id for dogs. They use body language with humans and other dogs. They also pay attention to threw same parts of human faces that we do. They don’t do this with other dog faces.

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          Scent is how dogs (generally) primarily experience the world.

          They don’t do this with other dog faces.

          Because dogs don’t use their faces the same way that humans do