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posted by martyb on Thursday August 30 2018, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-on-the-right-side dept.

Goats 'drawn to happy human faces'

Scientists have found that goats are drawn to humans with happy facial expressions. The result suggests a wider range of animals can read people's moods than was previously thought.

The researchers showed goats pairs of photos of the same person, one of them featuring an angry expression, and the other a happy demeanour.

The goats made a beeline for the happy faces, the team reports in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

The result implies that the ability of animals to perceive human facial cues is not limited to those with a long history of working as human companions, such as dogs and horses.

Instead, it seems, animals domesticated for food production, such as goats, can also decipher human facial cues.

[...] But the effect was only significant when the happy-faced photo was placed on the right-hand side.

When the happy photos were placed on the left, the goats showed no significant preference either way.

The researchers think this is because the goats are using one side of their brain to process the information - something that's seen in other animals.

It could either be that the left side of the brain processes positive emotions, or that the right side of the brain is involved in avoidance of angry faces.

Also at NPR, c|net, Queen Mary University of London.

Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions (open, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180491) (DX)

Related: Cross-Modal Recognition in Goats
Sheep Can Recognize Human Faces
Goats: Man's Other Best Friend


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @10:31PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @10:31PM (#728462)

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    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @12:04AM (#728497)

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        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @05:49PM (#728863)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @03:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @03:10AM (#728577)

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