{"id":9988,"date":"2019-06-18T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2019-07-06T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:47:06","slug":"dogs-are-manipulating-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/18\/dogs-are-manipulating-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Are Manipulating Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190617-masters-manipulation-evolution-puppy-dog-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from France 24 (opens in a new tab)\">from France 24<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Masters of manipulation: the evolution of &#8216;puppy dog eyes&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiTEs1sTC1M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Ever wondered how dogs learned to use their &#8220;puppy eyes&#8221; to bend us to their will?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out our pet pooches have evolved human-like eyebrow muscles, which let them make the sad faces that melt our hearts, according to a new study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It involved dissecting the cadavers of domestic dogs and comparing them to those of wild wolves, our best friends&#8217; ancestors, whom they branched off from around 33,000 years ago (don&#8217;t worry, no animals were killed for the research).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A separate part of the study saw scientists videotaping two-minute interactions between dogs and a human stranger, then repeating the experiment with wolves, to closely track how much they used a specific muscle around the eye that produced an inner eyebrow raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers found two muscles around the eye were routinely present and well formed in the domestic dogs, but not the wolves, and only dogs produced high-intensity eyebrow movements as they gazed at the human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It makes the eye look larger, which is similar to human infants,&#8221; Professor Anne Burrows of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, who was one of the co-authors, told AFP. &#8220;It triggers a nurturing response in people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190617-masters-manipulation-evolution-puppy-dog-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at France 24 (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at France 24<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from France 24 Masters of manipulation: the evolution of &#8216;puppy dog eyes&#8217; Ever wondered how dogs learned to use their &#8220;puppy eyes&#8221; to bend us to their will? It turns out our pet pooches have evolved human-like eyebrow muscles, which let them make the sad faces that melt our hearts, according to a new study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}