Laguna Niguel, CA - A fascinating study on dogs was published at the end of 2016 in the journal Plos One that clearly demonstrated what is known as prosocial behavior.
This is simply defined as a voluntary action that benefits others and was thought to be a uniquely human trait.
This study showed that our canine companions are prosocial creatures as well.
Here’s how the researchers set this up: The first thing the researchers did was to teach the dogs in the study to touch a token to get a food reward delivered to themselves. After they had mastered that, they were then trained on two more tokens.
Touching one of these two new tokens meant that a food reward was delivered to a partner dog. When they touched the second of the new tokens, no reward was delivered to the partner dog.
To read the remainder of this article, Study Shows Dogs Are Naturally Generous And Love To Share, go to WoofPost.com.
Also recently published are: Is Your Dog Too Fat? Reasons To Be Concerned, and How To Train Your Dog To Run With You.
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