{"id":563,"date":"2006-09-03T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/03\/the-language-of-dogs\/"},"modified":"2006-09-03T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T18:21:37","slug":"the-language-of-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/03\/the-language-of-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the undeniable dignity of the Queen of Niskayuna:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-40db04466f3a74ebe343ba6e2ab64bff-belly_rub.jpg\" alt=\"i-40db04466f3a74ebe343ba6e2ab64bff-belly_rub.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard a bunch of different people give sort of pop-science explanations of what dogs are really doing in various circumstances&#8211; sort of a canine version of evolutionary psychology. According to this theory, lots of the cute things that dogs do are actually evolved behaviors that play a crucial role in communication within dog packs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always sort of wondered what the dog thinks she&#8217;s doing when she flops over to have her belly rubbed. Is this some ingrained pack-bonding response, or is it just that belly rubs feel good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the undeniable dignity of the Queen of Niskayuna: I&#8217;ve heard a bunch of different people give sort of pop-science explanations of what dogs are really doing in various circumstances&#8211; sort of a canine version of evolutionary psychology. According to this theory, lots of the cute things that dogs do are actually evolved behaviors that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/03\/the-language-of-dogs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Language of Dogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}