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“#Dogs act jealously even when they don’t see their rival<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Past surveys have shown that more than 80% of dog owners report observing jealous behaviors from their dogs\u2014vocalizations, agitated behavior, pulling on a leash\u2014when they give attention to other dogs. New research published in the journal Psychological Science<\/a><\/i> supports these observations and finds that dogs also exhibit jealous behaviors when they merely imagine that their owner is interacting with a potential rival, in this case, a highly realistic artificial dog.<\/p>\n


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“Research has supported what many dog owners firmly believe\u2014dogs exhibit jealous behavior when their human companion interacts with a potential rival,” said Amalia Bastos with the University of Auckland and lead author on the paper. “We wanted to study this behavior more fully to determine if dogs could, like humans, mentally represent a situation that evoked jealousy.”<\/p>\n

Dogs app<\/a>ear to be one of the few species that might display jealous behaviors in ways similar to a human child showing jealousy when their mother gives affection to another child. In humans, jealousy is closely linked with self-awareness, which is one reason animal-cognition researchers are so interested in studying jealousy and other secondary emotions in animals.<\/p>\n

To test how and when dogs display jealous behavior, the researchers presented 18 dogs with situations where they could imagine a social<\/a> interaction between their human companion and either a realistic fake dog or a fleece cylinder. The fake dog served as a potential rival for attention while the cylinder served as a control.<\/p>\n


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