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- XxtraLarGe, on 03/30/2009, -3/+102I like my dogs better than I like most humans.
- TheMachine1, on 03/30/2009, -0/+87"Dogs can also distinguish rational from irrational human communications"
Sounds like he is saying my dogs know I'm crazy. - Frozo, on 03/30/2009, -6/+70Gee, I don't know... but according to the FIRST SENTENCE IN THE ARTICLE, you just may be on to something!!
"but dogs have lived with us for so long and undergone so much domestication that they are now serving as a model for understanding human social behavior" - skeptictank, on 03/30/2009, -3/+60I still can't lick my balls.
- Diggnabbit, on 03/30/2009, -0/+53My dog tells me I'm perfectly sane.
- sunburner, on 03/30/2009, -6/+50Another Dogs>Cats article. Dugg!
- Narcism, on 03/30/2009, -2/+41Explains why my ex was a bitch.
- nachochease, on 03/30/2009, -2/+36I guess this explains my peeing on the carpet fetish.
- EggAndMuffin, on 03/30/2009, -1/+34Your comment isn't worth digging
- greenprint, on 03/30/2009, -19/+51Couldn't it be that dogs serve as a model for human behaviour because we model domesticated dogs' behaviour?
- dullnation, on 03/30/2009, -0/+20Yes, the concept that we were all created by two humans orginally (through incenst) is much more compelling.
But, thats right, dogs and humans had interspecies sex and we got the brain of the dogs... /s (just if you didn't pick it up) - nyx210, on 03/30/2009, -1/+20Let the dog do it.
- Batfishy, on 03/30/2009, -0/+19Yeah, mine are on to me, too.
- blackmcgrath, on 03/30/2009, -1/+19I like when dogs kill each other, chop each other into pieces and stash the remains in garbage bags...oh wait.
- anthropodeus, on 03/30/2009, -1/+18there's a "bury" button so you dont have to write posts like this.
- jonesyno, on 03/30/2009, -4/+19Did you actually just fail at naming Snoop Dogg?
- ImYourRealDad, on 03/30/2009, -0/+15Why don't you take a stab a reading the article first?
- mickaloha, on 03/30/2009, -0/+15Don't believe him if he tells you to kill people.
- merlin5, on 03/30/2009, -0/+14We feed them, care for them, do all the work...omg..Dogs must be the true master race!
- cyberwiz01, on 03/30/2009, -0/+14Sometimes when I hear my dog rustling in the trash I yell out her name and then she sneaks over to her food bowl and acts like she was eating. If that's not deception I'm not sure what is.
- jer21, on 03/30/2009, -0/+14Oh snap!
- Networktwenty3, on 03/30/2009, -0/+13I use to have sever depression problems in my teens, diagnosed major depressive.. I had a yellow lab we named Rusty, when I was having severe bouts of depression that dog knew, the more depressed I was, the more that dog forced me to play with him, he would stick his nose under my arm, and flick his head so my hand landed on his head, he would bring me the ball and drop it in front of me. He wasn't like that when I wasn't depressed. He just knew. We eventually had to put him down, possible cancer at 13-14, best dog ever. I have a yellow lab again, Misfit, I've had her for about 10 years, great dog, but nothing like Rusty, but still an incredible companion in her own way. We really underestimate dogs.
- Diggnabbit, on 03/30/2009, -0/+12Animals can lie/dissemble.
What they caon't do is anticipate a reaction and tell the truth expecting it to be undersood as a lie (or any number of other complex interactions that require a notion of human subjectivity).
Dugg you up, though, for recognizing a seirous distinction between chimps and dogs, nonetheless. Dogs do not lie and have even less of a sense of subject-hood than chimps. - Phearce, on 03/30/2009, -0/+12I don't know if "trained" is the right word, but selective breeding definately plays a role in this. Dogs that empathize and communicate with their humans have an advantage -- food, shelter -- over those that don't.
- shotgunefx, on 03/30/2009, -0/+11I don't know about dogs not lying. When I was a kid, my dog would always follow me to school. I didn't mind because usually I got to leave and take him home (unless they brought him into the classroom).
Anyway..., sometimes on the way up, I would tell him to go home, and he would pretend to. He would walk a hundred or so feet away, then, when he thought I wasn't looking, run across the street and hide behind the row of parked cars lining the opposite sidewalk, still following me, trying to belly crawl between the gaps in the cars where he was visible. Being a giant German Shepard, he wasn't too stealthy wriggling between the gaps. Even in 2nd grade, I was floored by the behavior.
He knew he wasn't supposed to follow me, he wanted to, and he tried to hide it. That's deception to me. - LilJimmyNordin, on 03/30/2009, -1/+11I like when dogs create a monetary system wherein debt is created automatically whenever money is created so that people will never ever be out of debt and there will always be more money owed than actually exists... oh, wait...
- drchimp, on 03/30/2009, -6/+15Scientific yellow journalism at its finest. Show me a dog that does this when you yell at them for pooping on the floor :
"Lucy was observed lying; something that was once considered uniquely human, because it is evidence of a sense of self. In this sign-language conversation, Fouts asks Lucy about a pile of chimpanzee feces on the floor:
Fouts: WHAT THAT?
Lucy: WHAT THAT?
Fouts: YOU KNOW. WHAT THAT?
Lucy: DIRTY DIRTY.
Fouts: WHOSE DIRTY DIRTY?
Lucy: SUE (a graduate student).
Fouts: IT NOT SUE. WHOSE THAT?
Lucy: ROGER!
Fouts: NO! NOT MINE. WHOSE?
Lucy: LUCY DIRTY DIRTY. SORRY LUCY."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Temerlin_(chimpa ... - edrodgers731, on 03/30/2009, -0/+9It's George Clinton, kids.
- inactive, on 03/30/2009, -0/+9My dog is always talking *****!... thats when I have to lay it down for um! I tell him, Damn It Herby all you do is sit around and sleep all day!... You need to go out and get a job and make something of your life... and he's all like ***** you your not my dad! and Im all like the hell im not! Then he gets all up in my biznass and Im like DDaaammmnn! What a lilttle bastard!
- anteup, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8"How many people will happily run after a stick you throw and bring it back to you begging for more?"
Sounds like a lot of crappy human relationships to me... - uruururr, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8"dogs are outstanding" -Milhouse
- BaphClass, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8Dogs: A troll's worst enemy.
- freezerburn666, on 03/30/2009, -1/+9its like watching your parents sing rap
- hoojx34, on 03/30/2009, -2/+9It's bad for the cats...
- dullnation, on 03/30/2009, -1/+8As many traits they might share, they still have natural instinct that takes over. Still, I think you'll find that humans can easily be animals in equal lengths too...
- Batfishy, on 03/30/2009, -0/+7Did you read the article?
"Chimpanzees share many of our genes, but dogs have lived with us for so long and undergone so much domestication that they are now serving as a model for understanding human social behavior, according to a new paper." - AngelaQ, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6People kept dogs with desirable behaviors (ie, trainability) and eliminated dogs with undesirable behaviors (attacks the kids). To the extent that behavior is heritable, this would definitely result in an increase in desired behaviors.
- AngelaQ, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6Something to do with how evolution works. Try looking into it sometime.
- inactive, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6My mom said that dealing with a dog is just like dealing with a 2 year old.
- inactive, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6if docile chimps were bred, after 2-3 generations, they will be more like humans.
- alyssariffic, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6And you have one bury... apparently your ex uses digg.
- drmangrum, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6My urge to sniff crotch and hump legs is finally explained!
- stonebear, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6Actually your dog signs to you all the time, but you don't understand.
- Transducin, on 03/30/2009, -1/+6I love the study's conclusion. Dogs are most like humans in behavior and empathy...; therefore, we should be running more experiments on dogs.
I'm not judging, as I used to do research myself. Just thought it was amusing. - Coven, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5Chimp's can't walk on two legs for extended periods of time.
- stonebear, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5Nothing like unconditional love and complete honesty in a friend. Of course; the rare human who can provide those things would handily eclipse your dearest pets, should you ever be fortunate enough to meet one (and not flee in terror). In the meantime they'll do all right.
- TheInformer, on 03/30/2009, -1/+6So that's why my wife is such a bitch.
- kgerm, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5yeah that why i was so sacred for my dog with that peanut butter scare...
- AngelaQ, on 03/30/2009, -2/+6Cats have no sense of humor, and they don't play games unless they get to make the rules. They also think they're smarter than you. That's why your cat turned you in for throwing a bone at it.
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