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Subject Dogs have a secret bark language

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I enjoyed the link, including the reader comments (at the other site):

Because I have been increasingly paying attention to what these dogs are doing and thinking, and how they react to one another and to me, I am very aware that their awareness is far more complex than I had suspected. I have developed a much greater respect for their intelligence, and as a result my communication with them has improved greatly. They have a very rich emotional life that they deeply enjoy sharing with me.

Two of them smile, and know what kind of smile is appropriate for different occasions. One in particular is adept at responding with appropriate smiles, and has a real sense of humor. When he misses some treat I have tossed to him, and one of the other dogs gets it, he clearly laughs at himself. He obviously can appreciate the humor of his own mistake.

Many dog partners (owners isn't the right word - you don't refer to "owning" your children) understand these things. I am often amused by how far "science" lags behind reality. It is funny to see over-trained and data-blind scientists diligently studying something that a more intuitively aware person just simply "gets".

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good post. I agree, there is more going on than people give them credit for if you pay attention. It is a pity that there are people out there who can't or won't understand just what a gift dogs are.
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Original Message However, more recent research indicates that there might be more to barking than we first thought. Dogs have fairly plastic vocal cords, or a “modifiable vocal tract.” Dogs might be able to subtly alter their voices to produce a wide variety of different sounds that could have different meanings. Dogs might even be altering their voices in ways that are clear to other dogs but not to humans. When scientists have taken spectrograms, or pictures, of dog barks, it turns out that not all barks are the same—even from the same dog. Depending on the context, a dog’s barks can vary in timing, pitch, and amplitude. Perhaps they have different meanings.

[link to www.scientificamerican.com]

The dog knows all your secrets and has told other dogs..

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