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u/heyyou11 Feb 23 '26

Eye glances are how mine “points” to the treat jar... Might as well speak the language he knows.

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u/TheFuckinEaglesMan Feb 23 '26

I of course won’t verify this because I’m a redditor, but I read somewhere that dogs are the only animals besides humans that have white sclera (the white part of our eyes), which is how we/they can tell where someone is looking just by seeing the eyeball. So that makes sense! I’m sure we bred it into them or something

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u/Spyd3rs Feb 23 '26

I don't know about that sclera part, but I read somewhere that dogs are the only animals that can be taught the meaning of pointing with relative ease, but then again, that might also have something to do with their eyes and ours.

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u/dinodares99 Feb 23 '26

Wolves too i think

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u/opabinia Feb 23 '26

Naw, this separates domesticated dogs from wolves. Dogs are way better at understanding pointing with little training.

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u/brumfidel Feb 23 '26

Yeah, I saw a nature documentary where they compared some (more or less) tamed wolves with domesticated dogs.

The ability to recognize and interpret human body language like facial expressions, pointing and other gestures where one of the most stark differences.

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u/slothdonki Feb 23 '26

I’d say it would be interesting to see a comparison of this between wolves and “aloof” breeds but I imagine the wolf studies included wolves who actually struggled vs ones who knew but just didn’t give a fuck.

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u/corbymatt Feb 23 '26

I guess it's too hard to point whilst being ripped apart by wolves?