Recognition of directed-gaze from humans in cats
Recognition of directed-gaze from humans in cats
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10.2502/janip.69.2.3
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2019-01-01
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Nagasawa, Miho
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Koyasu, Hikari;Nagasawa, Miho
对于生活在群体中的动物，如人类和狼等灵长类动物，识别他人的目光并相应地改变自己的行为是很重要的。与狼有着共同祖先的狗，虽然是不同的物种，但在驯化过程中获得了解读人类目光的能力。虽然猫最初是独居动物，但在现代，经常可以看到猫与人类共享生活空间。最近的研究表明，猫很可能能够察觉到人类对它们的注视。在这项研究中，我们研究了猫是否能够识别人类的目光，以及是否会根据人类的目光改变自己的行为。我们调查了猫是否会根据人类凝视的方向表现出不同的行为。结果，当人类看向猫时，猫回望人类的时间更短，与人类的熟悉程度和距离以及社会环境无关。此外，当人类在个体之间距离较短的情况下看猫时，猫的眨眼频率会增加。从这些事实可以看出，猫可以识别人类的凝视，并相应地改变它们的行为。
For animals living in groups such as some primates including humans and wolves, it is important to recognize the gaze of others and change their behavior accordingly. Dogs, which have a common ancestor with wolves, gained the ability to read human's gaze even though they are different species in the process of domestication. Although cats are originally solitary animals, cats sharing their living space with humans are frequently observed in modern days. Recent study showed that cats are likely to be able to detect the human gaze directed to themselves. In this study, we examined whether cats are able to recognize the human gaze and whether to change their behavior according to it. We investigated whether cats show different behaviors depending on the direction of the human gaze. As a result, when humans looked at the cats, the time which the cats looked back at the humans was shorter, regardless of familiarity and distance with the humans and the social situation. Also, when humans look at cats when the distance between individuals is short, the eyeblink frequency of cats increases. From these facts, it was shown that cats could recognize directed-gaze from humans and change their behavior accordingly.