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Cats have been used as a "lazy visual shorthand" within popular culture to "[signify] clichés about effeminate gay men and lonely lesbian women". [4] The urban myth that lesbians are likely to have cats at home took hold within early lesbian feminism; [1] [5] cats were said to exhibit "spirited feline self-sufficiency" which made them "an essential accoutrement to all lesbian's lives ...
Doug Jones, a visiting scholar in anthropology at Cornell University, said that the proportions of facial features change with age due to changes in hard tissue and soft tissue, and Jones said that these "age-related changes" cause juvenile animals to have the "characteristic 'cute' appearance" of proportionately smaller snouts, higher foreheads and larger eyes than their adult counterparts.
Dogs presented with images of either human or dog faces with different emotional states (happy/playful or angry/aggressive) paired with a single vocalization (voices or barks) from the same individual with either a positive or negative emotional state or brown noise. Dogs look longer at the face whose expression is congruent to the emotional ...
The dogs in the study exhibited what scientists call emotional contagion, which is a person's (or animal's) unconscious tendency to mimic another's emotions. Study co-author Paula Pérez Fraga, a ...
Duchess was one of those dogs at the shelter who just patiently sat and watched hundreds of other dogs and cats getting adopted, while wondering when it was going to be her turn.
The dog had the habit of shredding newspapers, and when her owner returned home to find the shredded papers and scold her she would act guilty. However, when the owner himself shredded the papers without the dog's knowledge, the dog "acted just as 'guilty' as when she herself had created the mess."
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The dogs I owned weren’t all nice. In fact, some of them were beasts. But each one showed me what it means to care for someone without reservation. The post Everything I Know About Love, I’ve ...