{"id":548703,"date":"2018-11-20T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6ad1cce37b1d1b9caa96a736cc2046f0"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:30:01","slug":"dogs-know-when-they-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=548703","title":{"rendered":"Dogs know when they don&#8217;t know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the DogStudies lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have shown that dogs possess some &#8220;metacognitive&#8221; abilities\u2014specifically, they are aware of when they do not have enough information to solve a problem and will actively seek more information, similarly to primates. To investigate this, the researchers created a test in which dogs had to find a reward\u2014a toy or food\u2014behind one of two fences. They found that the dogs looked for additional information significantly more often when they had not seen where the reward was hidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the DogStudies lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have shown that dogs possess some &#8220;metacognitive&#8221; abilities&mdash;specifically, they are aware of when they do not have enough information to solve a problem and will actively seek more information, similarly to primates. To investigate this, the researchers created a test in which dogs had to find a reward&mdash;a toy or food&mdash;behind one of two fences. They found that the dogs looked for additional information significantly more often when they had not seen where the reward was hidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548704,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548703\/revisions\/548704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}