{"id":15547,"date":"2017-08-01T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15547"},"modified":"2017-08-01T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:16:06","slug":"we-may-soon-have-pet-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/we-may-soon-have-pet-translators\/","title":{"rendered":"We May Soon Have Pet Translators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/080117_1013_WeMaySoonHa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the future you may be able to hear your dog&#8217;s perspective on life wrote Sarah Butler and Hannah Devlin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prairie dogs \u2013 which are rodents not dogs \u2013 have been found to have a sophisticated language to describe predators and colours.<\/li>\n<li>Some think that other mammals \u2013 including pet dogs and cats \u2013 may have similarly complex language systems.<\/li>\n<li>The same algorithms that have substantially improved human voice recognition could be used on animal noises to see if clear patterns emerge.<\/li>\n<li>Others are skeptical. Dog barks can be context specific \u2013 but most people are pretty good at figuring out already if a dog&#8217;s bark is angry or happy.<\/li>\n<li>It might be helpful for young children. They often incorrectly think that a dog baring its teeth is smiling and would like a hug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/jul\/22\/hear-boy-pet-translators-will-be-on-sale-soon-amazon-says\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future you may be able to hear your dog&#8217;s perspective on life wrote Sarah Butler and Hannah Devlin: Prairie dogs \u2013 which are rodents not dogs \u2013 have been found to have a sophisticated language to describe predators and colours. Some think that other mammals \u2013 including pet dogs and cats \u2013 may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/080117_1013_WeMaySoonHa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15550,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15547\/revisions\/15550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}