Dogs can’t tell us what time means to them — but maybe we can try and understand how dogs perceive the passing of time.
, you've probably had an experience like this. You head out of the house, realize you forgot your phone, pop back in to grab it, and your dog greets you as if you've been gone 10 years.. Yet that same dog waits lovingly by the door precisely when it's time for the kids to get home from school. What gives? Can dogs tell time or not?That's a tricky question to answer, and what precious little research has been done is, frankly, not all that helpful.
Dogs have better hearing than humans; perhaps they can hear the car coming and distinguish it from other cars long before it pulls into the driveway. Or there might be more subtle clues, Bryant says, things we wouldn't even think about: the slant of light at that time of day, or a very slight sound the clock makes, or maybe something the neighbor in the upstairs apartment always does at that time of day.Read More:More interesting, perhaps, is how dogs perceive the passing of time.
Besides, we all know how tricky time perception can be, even for a species that surrounds itself with clocks and calendars. The pandemic, for example, really messed with
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