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Dogs Use 19 Signals to Tell Us What They Want (article)

In my article ,"Dogs Use 19 Signals to Tell Us What They Want", It shows dogs use Referential signaling to communicate with humans like apes which shows they're getting more intelligent and adaptable to their surroundings and learning to cooperate with them.

          One example how  in the article it stated "Referential signaling is a type of gesturing meant to convey a message without using words. Common among great apes, including humans, it’s the same thing that human babies use to get the attention of their parents. It’s rarer among non-primates" This shows that Dogs are becoming more intelligent because it shows that non-primates (dogs) are less likely to use Referential signaling which means dogs are probably becoming more advanced then most non-primate animals since they know something thats more rare among non-primates. This also shows that dogs are becoming more adaptable and probably learned this technique by observing their area and learning from it to get what they desire.
       Also, another example of how dogs are becoming more intelligent is in then text it said "In the study, researchers took hundreds of videos of 37 dogs interacting with their owners in England. Reviewing the footage, the team identified 49 possible gestural signals the pets may have used to get what they wanted. Then, they whittled those down to 19 signals, which the dogs deployed in combinations to get their point across to their humans.  According to the study, the most common requests are, “Give me food/drink,” “Open the door,” “Get my toy/bone,” and “Scratch me!” This is one of the examples of how dogs are becoming smarter because it shows a example of how dogs are intelligent because it gives a example of how the dogs used body language to get what they desire to their owners, Also, it shows how dogs gotten the point across to their humans by combining body gestures to tell their owner something.
       Another example is in the text it stated "This study gives evidence that non-primate species use referential signaling to communicate with unrelated species. For humans, this signaling is an important milestone in the evolution of speech" This shows that dogs are also getting smarter because dogs have proved non-primate species can communicate with other species by using referential signaling which is a big mile stone for humans because it shows there might be a chance humans can learn to communicate with animals using referential signaling just like dogs did with humans.
     The last example is that in the text it stated "preliminary studies suggest “dogs living with a larger number of people develop more gestures,” This shows that dogs are adaptable to is because it shows since there's more people living in the house the dog is going to learn faster since there's more to their surroundings, this also shows that since there's more people there's more to "say" so having more people means that the dogs develop more gestures since each gesture can be for specifically for someone.
        Overall, This shows that dogs are getting more intelligent and adaptable of their sorroundings since they learned how to use Ref annerential signaling which is rare for non-primates and has learned how to cooperate with humans which shows how adaptable they can be to their surroundings