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My dog understands me! At least, many dog owners think so. New scientific studies actually show that dogs understand a lot about us humans. For example, they can figure out what humans can and cannot see. Some dogs can even distinguish large numbers of toys by name, like Rico, the internationally famous Border collie.

But do dogs also understand our emotions? Can they grasp cause and effect relationships? What fascinates us humans about dogs? Is it only the proverbial ‘puppy dog eyes’ that make dogs look sympathetic? Or is it the fact that these animals have grown very well-attuned to humans and are willing to cooperate with them?

In a total of ten chapters, Juliane Bräuer and Juliane Kaminski present the results of the most important scientific studies of the last twenty years on dog cognition.



Table of Contents
​Table of Contents
1 Why dogs? 2 How wolves became dogs 3 Dogs are not wolves 4 What do dogs understand about others? 5 Do dogs learn by observing others? 6 How do dogs interpret human gestures? 7 Communication between dogs and humans 8 What do dogs know about their environment? 9 When dogs help 10 Looking ahead
Further reading
Index

What Dogs Know

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      Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
      Published 22 February 2022
      ISBN-13 9783030895327
      978-3030895327
      ISBN-10 3030895327
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      Biology, life sciences

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      My dog understands me! At least, many dog owners think so. New scientific studies actually show that dogs understand a lot about us humans. For example, they can figure out what humans can and cannot see. Some dogs can even distinguish large numbers of toys by name, like Rico, the internationally famous Border collie.

      But do dogs also understand our emotions? Can they grasp cause and effect relationships? What fascinates us humans about dogs? Is it only the proverbial ‘puppy dog eyes’ that make dogs look sympathetic? Or is it the fact that these animals have grown very well-attuned to humans and are willing to cooperate with them?

      In a total of ten chapters, Juliane Bräuer and Juliane Kaminski present the results of the most important scientific studies of the last twenty years on dog cognition.



      Table of Contents
      ​Table of Contents
      1 Why dogs? 2 How wolves became dogs 3 Dogs are not wolves 4 What do dogs understand about others? 5 Do dogs learn by observing others? 6 How do dogs interpret human gestures? 7 Communication between dogs and humans 8 What do dogs know about their environment? 9 When dogs help 10 Looking ahead
      Further reading
      Index

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