Human crying stresses out dogs: facts you probably didn’t know
Dogs react to different human emotions and can feel many things.
How do dogs react to human crying
Researchers from the ELTE Department of Ethology in Budapest compared how companion dogs and miniature companion pigs react to human crying.
Scientists have discovered that pigs and dogs respond differently to human emotional vocalizations.
The dogs compared their emotional state with the content of human vocalizations.
This means that dogs are able to experience empathy from crying.
Pigs experienced stress during strange vocalizations - buzzing.
Thus, dogs, during the process of domestication, learned to detect human emotions and respond to them accordingly.
Dogs are able to automatically switch their emotional state depending on what a person is experiencing.
Emotional contagion in dogs was especially pronounced with sounds that expressed distress.
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