Can they learn to fake behavior? (by behavior, I don't necessarily mean a trick, but a communication action- if that makes any sense)
I was just thinking about this when watching movies with canine actors. My initial thinking is just that behaviors can look so similar to the untrained/uninformed eye that it can look like the dog is doing one thing while they are actually doing another. Like, give me a squeaky ball and a camera and I can make Cameron look like a vicious dog about to attack me, but really she's just hyped up and wants the goddamn ball.
But, I'm sure I could also capture and train a yawn, a growl, and a play-bow is trained by a lot of people to a lot of dogs.
When dogs do these behaviors though, do they assign a "feeling" to the behavior. Like if you train a dog to play-bow, does it still feel the same as a play-bow would if they were doing it to initiate play- or do they recognize that doing it on command is different than doing it to communicate?
And do dogs ever fake behavior in order to manipulate other dogs?
I was just thinking about this when watching movies with canine actors. My initial thinking is just that behaviors can look so similar to the untrained/uninformed eye that it can look like the dog is doing one thing while they are actually doing another. Like, give me a squeaky ball and a camera and I can make Cameron look like a vicious dog about to attack me, but really she's just hyped up and wants the goddamn ball.
But, I'm sure I could also capture and train a yawn, a growl, and a play-bow is trained by a lot of people to a lot of dogs.
When dogs do these behaviors though, do they assign a "feeling" to the behavior. Like if you train a dog to play-bow, does it still feel the same as a play-bow would if they were doing it to initiate play- or do they recognize that doing it on command is different than doing it to communicate?
And do dogs ever fake behavior in order to manipulate other dogs?