{"id":748375,"date":"2023-02-16T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748375"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:20:02","slug":"dog-puppies-spontaneously-match-human-actions-while-kittens-and-wolf-pups-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=748375","title":{"rendered":"Dog puppies spontaneously match human actions, while kittens and wolf pups don&#039;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study published in Scientific Reports puppies\u2014but not kittens and wolf pups\u2014tend to spontaneously imitate human actions, even when they are not rewarded with food (or toys). The researchers of the Department of Ethology at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (ELTE), Budapest, investigated whether young puppies, kittens and wolf pups have different tendencies to observe and imitate what a person did, without any pre-training and food reward.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-dog-puppies-spontaneously-human-actions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dog puppies spontaneously match human actions, while kittens and wolf pups don&#8217;t<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study published in Scientific Reports puppies\u2014but not kittens and wolf pups\u2014tend to spontaneously imitate human actions, even when they are not rewarded with food (or toys).&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748375","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748375\/revisions"}],"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=748375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}