Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.
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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.
I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.
I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.
I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either by looking at the structure of the eye and comparing it with other species, or by behavioural tests.
As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.
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