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Dogs have a secret bark language
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 39348362:MV8yMTM4MDM2XzM3NzI4MjgxXzYzOUUzRTRE] [quote:Rabid Wolf:MV8yMTM4MDM2XzM3NzI4MjQyXzU2MjIyMEZC] That article should be titled, "Human scientist pulls head out of own ass - Realizes other animals communicate vocally." :smilewolf: [/quote] Dead right they do. I have several dogs. Like races of people some breeds seem more intelligent than others. My labrador will sit outside the door for ages quietly waiting for someone to let her in. My collie has separate barks for different things - if she wants me to open the door she'll give two short barks followed by one single one - she also does this if she spots the dumb labrador waiting outside the door! [/quote]
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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.
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The dog knows all your secrets and has told other dogs..
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