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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 Friday August 31 2018, @02:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @02:39AM (#728561)

    Where do jews get the idea that they are the chosen ones?

    Isn't that extremely arrogant and supremacist (and also ignorant) ?

    And as a result considering everyone else non-chosen ones, hence committing crimes against humanity against them. How is that not racist and supremacist (and criminal) ? jewish race is the original racist one.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @08:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @08:18PM (#728947)

    Where do jews get the idea that they are the chosen ones?

    Specifically? From Exodus 19:5-6 I guess:

    5 Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you[a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

    שמות פרק יט :

    ה וְעַתָּה, אִם-שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמְעוּ בְּקֹלִי, וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם, אֶת-בְּרִיתִי--וִהְיִיתֶם לִי סְגֻלָּה מִכָּל-הָעַמִּים, כִּי-לִי כָּל-הָאָרֶץ. ו וְאַתֶּם תִּהְיוּ-לִי מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים, וְגוֹי קָדוֹשׁ: אֵלֶּה, הַדְּבָרִים, אֲשֶׁר תְּדַבֵּר, אֶל-בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל.

    ( I highlighted another goy usage. Ironically here it described the Israelites )

    But it seems you're getting the wrong idea of what it means to be chosen. Not only it doesn't mean other people owe you anything (the only parties to the deal are God and the Jews so only God is responsible to paying back to the Jews), it typically means God might want to give you a little trial to see how good is your faith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(biblical_figure) [wikipedia.org]

    So rabbis definitely wrote some self-entitled racist nonsense over the years. But everyone did that at the time. Catholics, Muslims and Protestants each passed declarations and rules on how the other factions are headed to hell and should be killed on sight at one time or another. They had specific codes on how you're not obliged to pay a debt to this group or how it's fine take the property of that group and it wouldn't be stealing... But the thing is, those were Church laws. Not the king's laws. And people lived by the kings laws. And Jews weren't an exception.

    Overall, I just don't get your point. People are people. Nothing exceptional about Jews other than the circumstances with the exception of the odd genius or two.