Humans tend bostik roll-cote to perceive inanimate objects as animate based on simple motion cues.So far this perceptual bias has been studied mostly in humans by utilizing two-dimensional video and interactive displays.Considering its importance for survival, the perception of animacy is probably also widespread among animals, however two-dimensional displays are not necessarily the best approach to study the phenomenon in non-human species.
Here we applied a novel method to study whether dogs recognize a dependent (chasing-like) movement pattern performed by inanimate agents in live demonstration.We found that dogs showed more interest toward the agents that demonstrated the chasing-like motion, compared to those that were involved in the independent movement.We read more suggest that dogs spontaneously recognized the chasing-like pattern and thus they may have considered the interacting partners as animate agents.
This methodological approach may be useful to test perceptual animacy in other non-human species.