[ SHOWGSD-L ] OT<> Do Dogs Show Regret?

From: Stormy Hope <Stormy435@xxxxxxx>
To: showgsd-list showgsd-list <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:20:05 -0700
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/science/02tier.html?_r=1&ref=science
http://tinyurl.com/merdma

In That Tucked Tail, Real Pangs of Regret?

By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: June 1, 2009

If you own a dog, especially a dog that has anointed your favorite rug,
you know that an animal is capable of apologizing. He can whimper and
slouch and tuck his tail and look positively mortified ? ?I don?t know
what possessed me.? But is he really feeling sorry?

Could any animal feel true pangs of regret? Scientists once scorned this
notion as silly anthropomorphism, and I used to side with the skeptics
who dismissed these displays of contrition as variations of crocodile
tears. Animals seemed too in-the-moment, too busy chasing the next meal,
to indulge in much self-recrimination. If old animals had a song, it
would be ?My Way.?

Yet as new reports keep appearing ? moping coyotes, rueful monkeys,
tigers that cover their eyes in remorse, chimpanzees that second-guess
their choices ? the more I wonder if animals do indulge in a little
paw-wringing....

NAIA News
National Animal Interest Alliance


Stormy Hope
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