Dog Eyes
This is how you tell where your dog is looking.
What is, watching his (or her) head?
In this movie, monster Cruella de Ville tries to steal dogs and use their fur for a coat.
What is 101 Dalmations?
This percentage of a dog's brain is used to process smells.
What is one eighth of the brain?
This is a typical signal a dog uses when they want to show they are ready to play.
What is the play bow?
Dogs have been known to have ________. This means they can feel what another is feeling, such as when a human is in distress.
What is empathy?
This is how dogs typically see. They don't see what's right in front of them, but they see_____________.
What is, a panoramic view? Dogs see a wide, panoramic view of what's around them. They can see more of what's alongside their heads than human beings can.
This dog is a famous Alaskan sled dog who has his own statue in Central Park.
Who is Balto?
This is the organ that helps a dog have such a good sense of smell.
What is the vomeronasal organ?
Scientists think that these might be some of the benefits of play.
What is, to release energy, to learn important skills, or to learn how to handle unpredictable events.
A border collie once demonstrated that it knew this many vocabulary words.
What is 1022 words?
This is why dogs see a bit more than humans do. They are able to react a few seconds faster because of this capability of their eyes and sight.
This dog famously walked with his owner to a train station in Japan, every day, and when his owner died, he patiently waited for him for 9 years.
Who is Hachiko (or Hachi)?
This is the type of chemical a dog can smell on another animal.
What is a pheromone?
Scientists have tested to see if dogs can do this, which means to copy what another is doing.
What is to imitate?
This is the name of an animal's "self-world," or perception. It's everything they sense around them and all that matters to them.
What is umwelt?
What is motion?
This is the name of the Golden Retriever in the Pixar movie Up.
Who is Dug?
Dogs can smell "the past" because of this reason.
What is, dogs can sense how long an odor has been present. They can tell if the odor is new or if it was from a different point in time.
This is the scientific term for being able to understand that another animal or person is its own, independent person, with separate beliefs from oneself.
What is Theory of Mind?
This is the word that means that an animal becomes tamer over time, through generations of breeding, and more like a pet.
What is domestication?
The colors that a dog can see.
What is blue and greenish-yellow?
This is the name of the dog who was a first responder after the 9/11 attacks. Later in life, when he passed away, his family had him cloned.
This is how many smell receptor cells a beagle has.
What is 600 million?
This dog demonstrated that he could imitate anything when he heard the command "Do It!"
Who is Phillip?
It was discovered that when your dog is making a sad face after doing something wrong, it may not feel guilt, but is reacting because of this reason.
What is, the dog feels he is being punished?