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Understand your dog

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Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analysing dog barks that could allow people to better recognise dogs’ basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Molnar and his colleagues at Budapest’s ELTE University have tested software which distinguishes the emotional reaction of 14 dogs of the Hungarian Mudi herding breed to six situations: When the dog is alone, when it sees a ball, it fights, it plays, it encounters a stranger or it goe s for a walk. "A possible commercial application could be a device for dog-human communication," the scientist told Reuters. The computer correctly recognised the emotional reaction of the dogs based on their barks and yelps in 43 per cent of the cases. People had judged correctly in 40 per cent of cases.

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