When meeting a person's gaze, dogs often raise their inner eyebrow muscle to make their eyes look larger and more appealing.
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Download. Scientists at the university of portsmouth's dog cognition centre claim they are the first to find clear evidence that dogs move their faces in direct response to human attention. When meeting a person's gaze, dogs often raise their inner eyebrow muscle to make their eyes look larger and more appealing.
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Now, new research confirms a begging dog. And while dogs' closest relatives, wolves, interpret eye contact as a sign of hostility, dogs and humans are similarly reliant on eye contact for interaction, which also by contrast, the wolves rarely made eye contact with their owners. Perhaps dogs that are bred to work very closely with humans might be more likely to show the raised eyebrows which seem to indicate that the dog is paying attention.
When dogs make the movement, it seems to elicit a strong desire in humans to look after them.
Previous studies have shown how such canine expressions can appeal to humans, but this research from the uk and us shows there has been an anatomical change around dogs' eyes to make it possible. This would give dogs, that move their eyebrows more, a selection advantage over others and reinforce the 'puppy. Puppy dog eyes are achieved by the laom raising the inner eyebrows, in some cases quite dramatically. If i see my dog making that face, i.
