{"id":44,"date":"2003-06-09T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2003-06-09T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2003-06-09T17:58:43","slug":"smarty-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Smarty Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/2956766.stm#startcontent\">article<\/a> about behaviors that dogs have developed from living in close proximity to humans for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr Miklosi said: &#8220;Looking at the gaze or engaging in eye contact is a typical human signal, so dogs could be said to be using a behaviour that is analogous to ours.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThey should have compared the ability of dogs, wolves and academic programmers to react to facial queues.  I think the dogs still would have won!<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of the joke:<br \/>\n&#8220;How can you identify an extroverted engineer?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;He looks at <b>your<\/b> shoes when he&#8217;s talking to you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BTW &#8211; Found this article over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitweever.com\/blog\/archives\/000616.php\">bitweever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool article about behaviors that dogs have developed from living in close proximity to humans for thousands of years. Dr Miklosi said: &#8220;Looking at the gaze or engaging in eye contact is a typical human signal, so dogs could be said to be using a behaviour that is analogous to ours.&#8221; They should have compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}