Dog Communication with Humans - Horizon: The Secret Life of the Dog - BBC Two

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We have an extraordinary relationship with dogs - closer than with any other animal on the planet. But what makes the bond between us so special?

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• dogs
• barks
• communicating
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• BBC
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• secret life of the dog
• dog

[danwarb1]

@MichaelBradley1988

Wild dogs (Wolves), don't really bark at all. Modern domesticated dogs in the wild, will still bark.

Their brains have been altered during the >10000 years relationship with humans. They've developed ways of communicating with us through barking and eye movement/body language. No other animals do that.

[gooddarkjedi]

@danwarb1 actualy body language is the most common lanuage in nature. dogs have adopted to understand human body lanuage.

[PenguinCookies94]

thats amazing

[carolalouge]

Absolutely awesome video, keep up the good work!!!

[jualkyn]

actually it is proven that cats think and feel emotions alot more like humans do than dogs. their emotional area of the brain react quite like people do, the only difference is that cats are much better at hiding their emotions when need be.

[babrockkk]

I remember being immensely impressed w this when I watched it all a while back. Ii was wanting to watch it all again, but other than this bit it has been removed from tube.

[marknew91]

Very interesting. I wish him luck and success in his research.

[MechaLuigi3000]

@LordBifford and i thought every single person was going to bomb me about what i thought about when thought about all the stuff i kinda noticed about dogs and us...

[LordBifford]

@MechaLuigi3000 The full documentary confirms your thought. They show how dogs respond to pointing, while chimpanzees don't.

[monteoner]

@MechaLuigi3000 exactly, while chimps have more intelligence and potential for human characteristics (watch?v=kwm4FEB9LC8&playnext_­from=TL&videos=wafC6WeJoy8 this is cool) dogs have spent so much time evolving alongside us its only natural for us to have big similarities

[MechaLuigi3000]

This may sound odd to everyone... But I bet dogs has more things in common about humans than monkeys.... They worry, they communicate with emotions, they almost get same diseases as humans, we both eat meat, both have long nose (but with different number of smelling detectors), they behave almost the same unlike monkeys or chimpanzees.. or however you want to call them. Monkeys only look a bit like us. but very different. They are like... an odd species that kind of looks like humans. my opinion