Human Gestures And Body Language Essay

Dog’s Reacting to Human Gestures and Body Language In this case study, four experiments were conducted. These experiments were attained to see how dogs reacted to human gestures and body language such as pointing, slouching, and moving. The dogs’ owners were the ones conducting the experiment and hid toys/food over a three-day time period. I believe that these trials and experiments have shown that dogs do understand humans and can read our body language as well as understand the gestures we make.
Starting with experiment one, six male dogs and three female dogs were used in this trial. All besides three of them were previously owned by humans. Five of which were women and one male. It was pleaded of them to avoid feeding the dogs two hours

They used the same technique by hiding the food and using different pointing gestures as well. The chimpanzees had a hard time understanding when the human changed the pointing gesture to bend at the elbow and keep the index finger in front of the whole body. But, with that result, it concluded that the dogs also had a hard time when they tested that as well. Is this just a mammal thing or would other animals understand it either? For this experiment, the continued to hide the food but used three different examination gestures. They used the gestures from before, but wanted to see if this time, if they couldn’t understand the gesture, if they would pay attention to the experimenter’s body language. (Soproni et al., 2002) This was done over a two-day time period and three new gestures were used: elbow cross- pointing, far pointing, and far elbow cross-pointing. Again, the results concluded that regular pointing led to the higher results of finding the bowl but this time far elbow cross-pointing had very low results. However, the dogs started obtaining body language as the gesture to begin with the experiment which was an improvement to see if they were grasping the concept of body language. (Soproni et al.,