![]() ![]() This study revealed, by detailed behavioral evaluation and statistical analysis, that some of the dog’s body language correlated with high achievement in the operant conditioning tests. To clarify the body language of dogs with high learning performances, we recorded the duration of each behavioral category during nine training sessions over three consecutive days. These reports have demonstrated that dogs understand and responded to human gestures and cues, such as pointing, head turning, gazing and nodding, to locate hidden food items. Over the last decade, many studies have shown that dogs respond to human actions, which might be an effect of domestication. Dogs and humans are capable of a unique interspecies communication, and understanding, and share basic emotions. Instead, the study provided support for the domestication hypothesis: that dogs acquired their social-communicative skills with humans during the process of domestication. Hare’s 2002 study did not support the predictions of either the canid generalization hypothesis, which states that dogs have inherited their skills from wolves, or the human exposure hypothesis, which states that dogs are skillful because they experience intense exposure to humans through their lives. It is concluded that dogs' body language during operant conditioning was related to their success rate.ĭogs, which were probably the first domesticated animals, have shared a common environment with humans for over ten thousand years. Particular behaviors, including wide-eyes, closed mouth, erect ears, and forward and high tail carriage, without wagging or with short and quick wagging, related to high achievement results. The duration of the dog’s behavior, focusing on the dog’s eyes, mouth, ears, tail and tail-wagging, was recorded during the operant conditioning sessions before the test. The operant tests were conducted a total of nine times over three consecutive days, and the success numbers were counted. Each session consisted of 5 minutes of training with a treat reward followed by 3 minutes of rest and finally an operant conditioning test that consisted of 20 “hand motion” cues. ![]() Forty-six untrained dogs (17 males and 26 females) of various breeds were used. The aim of this study was to clarify the dog’s body language during operant conditioning to predict achievement in the test that followed by measuring the duration of behaviors. People can more effectively obedience train their dogs if we can identify the mannerisms associated with learning in dogs. The facial expressions and body postures of dogs can give helpful information about their moods and emotional states. ![]()
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