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06-25-2008, 10:45 PM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2008 Location: West Chester, PA, USA
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| Can your Yorkies tell the difference between a real and a fake bark? Something in the video section reminded me of this. My husband and I collect DVDs, and many of them have either real or animated animals in them. We watch a movie just about every night, and our Yorkies sit of the sofa with us to watch them. Most of the time, they just curl up on our laps and go to sleep, but I started noticing that they actually seem to watch some of the movies, and that they would bark or growl during certain scenes. I couldn't figure out what the distinction was, but then I started looking into the details of these movies on the Internet, and I found that the ones they reacted to had real dog noises, but the ones they didn't react to had simulated dog noises, even though there were dogs in the movies. I couldn't tell the difference in most cases (amazing what Hollywood can simulate these days), but I concluded that my dogs could, so I tried a little experiment. I looked around on the Internet for videos or audios of dogs barking. I played them, and in every case, my dogs reacted only to the real dogs noises, even though the simulated noises sounded real to me. I wouldn't have known the difference if the video hadn't stated it. The other odd thing I found is that they reacted differently to different videos/audios. With some I played, they'd run around the room and want to play, with others, they'd bark, others they'd whine, and others they'd howl. I know this sounds kind of whacked out, but it was almost like they were listening to a "language" that made them either playful, sad/upset, or feel threatened. This of course wasn't any sort of scientific study, but the results were amazingly consistent. They always reacted the same way to the same video, and it had nothing to do with the size of the dogs in the video. There were videos of very small dogs that were unhappy, and my dogs would howl, but there were also videos of dogs as large as German Shepherds, and they'd just, "Ruff...ruff," like they wanted to play. If the video had a dog that was being aggressive, they'd growl. As I said, this is anecdotal, but it's interesting to think that they have their own language on some level and can sense what another dog is feeling just from its audio on the Internet, and they even know when the audio isn't a real dog, no matter how well-simulated the audio is. Anyone else tried this, or willing to try it? I think the results would be really interesting if some others can duplicate it. |
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