{"id":7939,"date":"2013-08-12T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2013-08-12T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T15:51:51","slug":"studies-find-keys-to-canine-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/2013\/08\/12\/studies-find-keys-to-canine-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies Find Keys to Canine Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/files\/2013\/08\/barkingdog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7940\" alt=\"barkingdog2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/files\/2013\/08\/barkingdog2.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Several new studies on canine vocalization have yielded some very interesting results.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in a study at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Budapest, researchers proved that growls which seemed similar to human ears were actually differentiated by dogs as a \u2018play growl\u2019, a \u2018stranger\u2019 growl, or a \u2018food-guarding\u2019 growl.<\/p>\n<p>Another study found that dog barking isn\u2019t as simple as we think; that is, dogs don\u2019t just bark to warn of danger or get attention. In fact, dog barking has different acoustic properties depending on the situation, and dogs can \u2018read\u2019 these.<\/p>\n<p>Another study found that dogs can decipher whether a bark is from a familiar dog or a new one.<\/p>\n<p>It is surprising, considering the amount of time, affection, and money we devote to our furry companions, that humans have spent relatively little effort learning how they communicate.<\/p>\n<p>You can read all the details about new studies in canine vocalization in a <a href=\"http:\/\/thebark.com\/content\/dog-speak-sounds-dogs\">recent article<\/a> in The Bark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several new studies on canine vocalization have yielded some very interesting results. For instance, in a study at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University in Budapest, researchers proved that growls which seemed similar to human ears were actually differentiated by dogs as a \u2018play growl\u2019, a \u2018stranger\u2019 growl, or a \u2018food-guarding\u2019 growl. Another study found that dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-and-staff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DBMX-243","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}