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According to a charming new study, goats might be man’s next best buddy. Put dogs away.
Goats can identify human emotions in facial recognition tests, according to a Royal Society Open Science research team, and they consistently choose joyful faces over sad ones.
Twenty goats were placed in a pen with pictures of happy and sad or angry people on it by the scientists. In summary, the goats spent more time examining, sniffing, and interacting with the joyful pictures.
The trials were planned by the researchers because they thought that because goats and people had been domesticated together for thousands of years, the animals would have become more sensitive to human emotions.
The study’s findings, which are thought to be limited among working animals, have led the research team to conclude that other domesticated animals are likely to exhibit the same perception of emotional valence in humans.
The study has also been praised as a great step in improving our relationship with our working animals, with the hope that if we can completely comprehend the degrees of contact between humans, we may be able to provide them more rights.
According to research co-author Natalia Albuquerque, “the study of emotion perception has already shown very complex abilities in dogs and horses.” But as of yet, there was no proof that goats or other animals could interpret human facial expressions. Our findings pave the way for a deeper comprehension of the emotional lives of all household animals.
