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| So that's how dogs work... |
What’s the legacy of your companion animals? Phil and I
have engaged in a lot of citizen science to try to improve general
understanding of dogs, human, and the whole dog-human relationship.
You can do it too! Our mates at Do You Believe in Dog? Are
helping PhD student Charlotte Duranton at the University Aix-Marseille
Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology to recruit human participants for a citizen
science project.
The project is about behavioural synchrony – i.e. whether
dogs synchronise their behaviour to humans. (You can read more about the project
here - with a bit more of an explanation of the science behind this question).
Charlotte needs participants who are dog owners AND she
needs NON-dog owners too. That seems to account for everyone on the planet.
It takes about 10-15 minutes and requires you to view
some videos and provide responses. (I completed the study while Phil slept in –
he loves citizen science).
In other news, one of our readers shared this photo essay
about dogs in bags on the New York subway.
