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Dogs Anonymous Mon Jul 24 20:49:07 2017 No.9060763 [Reply] [Original]

Why do humans love dogs so much. When my dog greets me after work it gives me the warm and fuzzies. Is there a biological reason humans form emotional bonds with animals of species?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 24 20:49:47 2017 No.9060764 >>9060763 *Other species

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 24 20:53:18 2017 No.9060776 Because humans are insecure needy shitheads

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 24 20:55:03 2017 No.9060781 >>9060776 Thanks for informed answer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 24 20:58:03 2017 No.9060788 >>9060763 Same DNA ?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 24 21:18:28 2017 No.9060844 >>9060763 Fookin prawns

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 24 21:24:47 2017 No.9060863 >>9060763 those are chickens, op

Anonymous Mon Jul 24 21:36:28 2017 No.9060884

>>9060763
Humans and dogs probably co-evolved over the last 30k or so years. The productivity and survivability boost that came with using dogs for hunting and guarding would have led to dog-lovers basically out-competing dog-haters rather fast.

Dogs might even have changed the human brain since outsourcing awareness to dogs let humans focus their brain on intellectual stuff - so without dogs we might have still been living in caves.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 02:15:33 2017 No.9061469 >>9060776 /thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 15:29:33 2017 No.9062620 File: 3.27 MB, 240x320, 1475147064143.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9060884 This guy gets it. It also seems humans have evolved to understand dogs. The co-evolution is rather profound. I also had a dog.

Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:05:00 2017 No.9062712

>>9060763
>Is there a biological reason humans form emotional bonds with animals of species?

Dogs being a part of your "family" gave an advantage -- protection from predators, assistance in hunting, eat the scraps before the rot... People who liked dogs being around survived in greater percentages than those who did not.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:15:43 2017 No.9062748 >>9060763 Humans are social animals and use pets as a substitution for humans.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:35:55 2017 No.9062881 >>9062712 Cats also provided some advantages but humans do not connect as well with cats as with dogs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:40:09 2017 No.9062893 >>9060884 Bullshit, dogs aren't shit. Fuck dogs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:45:34 2017 No.9062906 File: 1.71 MB, 374x219, 1489305990504.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9062893 When we say we love dogs, we do not mean we promote beastiality, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:47:24 2017 No.9062910 >>9062881 Perhaps cats provide less advantage? They are good for pest control, almost as good for cleaning up the scraps, but not so good as hunting companions -- so we have not been as strongly solected to like them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:48:26 2017 No.9062914 >>9062910 >solected selected Either my typing is getting worse, or this keyboard is shit.

Anonymous Tue Jul 25 16:59:42 2017 No.9062943
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>>9062910
Hard to tell. Do we even know how well suited dogs were originally for use in hunting?

The strange thing is that dogs are very specialised - shepherds will, well, shepherd herds but are not suited for hunting birds and vice versa. And dogs cannot be taught to do things outside what they were bred for. I am not sure why since there is no doubt that dogs are intelligent and can learn. Some say dogs can learn to understand 40 words.

Dogs also know when they prefer not to understand...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 05:22:19 2017 No.9064471 >>9060884 >outsourcing awareness to dogs What exactly do you mean?

Anonymous Wed Jul 26 05:38:39 2017 No.9064495
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>>9064471
Instead of having to be constantly aware of potential predators, we have puppers that can smell/hear things much better than us so humans can focus on other things like tracking/hunting

i read the same thing about dogs and humans changing eachother's brain structure over course of their co-evolution but i cant find the source at the moment

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 13:17:53 2017 No.9065065 >>9064495 >dogs and humans changing eachother's brain structure over course of their co-evolution BBC News has had a lot of articles about this topic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 13:19:34 2017 No.9065070 I hate dogs. They look like shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 26 13:44:56 2017 No.9065115 >>9065070 >I excrete white fluffy poo. Please see a doctor, anon.

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