The male dog may pay more attention to judging things with a sense of smell
Although they are also dogs, different varieties of dogs are also very different in behavior and personality. In addition, even dogs of the same species have different gender, there will be certain differences between dogs. For example, the male dog and the female dog have a certain difference in judgment of things. Studies have shown that male dogs focus on judging things with their noses, while female dogs focus on judging things with their eyes.
Studies have shown that if the size of the ball is changed intermittently, it is easier for female dogs to notice this change than male dogs. However, the researchers are not sure what the difference is behind this difference. Experts say that this result supports a point: In some cases, male dogs believe their noses more, and female dogs depend on their eyes more. This study was published in "Biological Communication". Cognitive biologist Corzan Mueller and his colleagues at the University of Vienna want to know how the dogs are constant. That is to say, if an object disappears for a while, can they recognize whether the size of the object has changed. In order to ensure the scientific and reasonable experiment, they convened 25 females and male dogs each as experiments.
The experiments first played the two balls participating in the test: these two balls are exactly the same in color, just a tennis size and a cantaloupe size. Then bring the dog to the venue first, and the researchers are reorganized. Then the owner led the dog back to the room, and then covered the owner's eyes. This was to ensure that the owner's reaction would not affect the dog's judgment. Then, the experiment placed a ball on the left of the screen in front of the dog, and the experiments hiding behind another screen would slowly pull the left ball with the help of the transparent thin line. As a result, the dog will find that the ball "rolled" from one side to the back of the screen, and then the experiments will pull the ball out of the screen. However, sometimes the experiments pull the balls of different sizes behind the screen. In this way, in the eyes of the dog, this ball seems to be magically changing the size.
The female dog may also be visually judged
The experiment shows that if the size of the ball changes, the dog will spend longer staring at the ball for a longer time. However, when the researchers analyzed the response of the female dog and the male dog, they were really surprised. Regardless of whether the size of the ball changes, the male dogs are staring at the ball as long as the ball, and the female dog will spend longer time to observe the balls that have changed in size. 36 seconds.
The reason why female dogs are more likely to rely on the eyes to judge things may be that the smell on the baby of the dog is often very similar, and the sense of smell may not be very insurance, so the female dog may use the eyes to judge the difference between the dog. The male is more inclined to track prey with the nose, so rarely notice visual differences, which is also the reason for the difference between the two.
Of course, this phenomenon is only a conclusion that researchers come by. It may take some time to study whether it is correct. We can usually do some small experiments to verify whether this statement is correct. If the researcher said, then we can change slightly when we treat male dogs and female dogs. We can focus on the taste of the male dogs, and for the female dogs can spend some thoughts on the shape.