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How Dogs Perceive the World Around Them: Not at All the Way You Think
31.03.2023 14:04
Updated: 15.04.2023 00:26
There are many theories about how dogs perceive the world around them. For a long time, it was believed that dogs see the world in black and white.
We have collected for you the results of the latest research on the topic of how man's best friend – the dog – perceives the surrounding world.
Unrelated studies have been conducted in different parts of the world, and here are the conclusions that experts have reached.
University of Helsinki
Based on the results of the study, scientists came to the conclusion that the world around dogs consists primarily of smells, and only then of some images and pictures. Dogs' vision is not as well developed as their sense of smell, thanks to which they determine smells that humans do not sense. But dogs' vision is also better developed than humans'. If bipeds perceive the world by analyzing a 180-degree view, dogs see the world at 250 degrees. But they really do have difficulty distinguishing colors.
University of Lincoln
Dogs have their own internal clock, by which animals keep track of their own time. Pets remember some events well, and what people call a premonition (like the owner's arrival home), dogs control precisely by their internal clock.
They begin to wait for their owner to come home about an hour beforehand, as well as the time when it’s time to go for a walk.
Emora University
Using MRI and artificial intelligence, American scientists tried to find out what a dog actually sees. Having studied the work of the animal's visual apparatus, experts identified a number of differences. In a nutshell, people receive visual information by assessing an object, while dogs react to movement.
