The owners were then asked whether their dog looked guilty.
If the dog had misbehaved, the owner was given a moment to berate his pet for its misdeed. When the owners returned, some were told that their dogs had been naughty and eaten the forbidden food.Others were told their dog had been good and left the biscuit alone. Horowitz asked owners to forbid their dogs to take a biscuit and then briefly leave the room. We have found that people remain somewhat mysterious to dogs for the first five months of life, and dogs at our local pound lag considerably behind house dogs when it comes to understanding human beings.Recent research by Alexandra Horowitz at Barnard College in New York accentuates the talking past each other that sometimes goes on between humans and dogs. And yet attempts to view canine smarts as cut from the same cloth as human intelligence gloss over a lot of the details about how dogs and humans operate. Under certain circumstances, dogs understand that a human who cannot see them (because, for example, she is blindfolde d) is less likely to respond to begging with a tasty treat than a person whose vision is not obscured.Dogs are also more likely to obey a command to leave something desirable alone if their master stays in the room than if he steps out.
Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.Dogs are able to follow human pointing gestures to find hidden food, and they can indicate successfully to their owners by their own pointing actions where a hidden toy is located. The passage given below is followed by a set of questions.
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