Animals can not be criticized: they can distinguish the emotions in human words ｜ Daily cans

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Not long ago, I saw a post on Douban. The hostess said to the cat that she was so big with her father and apologized by her husband. Essence In fact, don't think that the animals don't understand, they can perceive the emotions in your words, so as to judge the derogation.

A study published by the University of Copenhagen in "BMC Biology" used the two animals of horses and pigs as an example.

Researchers use the animal sound and recording of human sounds by speakers. In order to prevent domesticated animals from responding to specific words, human languages ​​with positive and negative emotions are produced by professional voice actors, consisting of some meaningless phrases. The reaction of animal ear and tail is analyzed through video records and analysis.

The results show that the animals will become more calm and relaxed with a language with positive emotions on the front; playing negative, negative emotions, and animal response are fierce.

Do you have to consider your tone and words next time you train with small animals?

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Anne-Laure Maigrot, Edna Hillmann, Elodie F. Briefer.Cross-species discrimination of vocal expression of emotional valence by Equidae andSuidae.BMC Biology, 2022; 20 (1) DOI:10.1186/s12915-022-01311-5

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