Dogs understand human perspective, say researchers

[Blind groper]

Then why are there still cats?

Back up food supply.

[mistermack]

Why the hell do you need a study to tell you the bleeding obvious?
Dog have evolved over four billion years. Every single one of their ancestors lived with alternating night and day. Their brains have ALWAYS known that what they can do in the dark is different.
Dogs are essentially wolves, social animals, and they know instinctively what other pack members can do in the dark. It would be amazing if they didn't.

[Tyrannical]

Why the hell do you need a study to tell you the bleeding obvious?
Dog have evolved over four billion years. Every single one of their ancestors lived with alternating night and day. Their brains have ALWAYS known that what they can do in the dark is different.
Dogs are essentially wolves, social animals, and they know instinctively what other pack members can do in the dark. It would be amazing if they didn't.

Dogs are behaviorally very different than wolves, especially when it comes to communicating with humans. I believe that dogs are better at it than even closely related primates. The Russian experiments with fox domestication implies that domestication can be achieved over a few dozen generations.

[mistermack]

Why the hell do you need a study to tell you the bleeding obvious?
Dog have evolved over four billion years. Every single one of their ancestors lived with alternating night and day. Their brains have ALWAYS known that what they can do in the dark is different.
Dogs are essentially wolves, social animals, and they know instinctively what other pack members can do in the dark. It would be amazing if they didn't.

Dogs are behaviorally very different than wolves, especially when it comes to communicating with humans. I believe that dogs are better at it than even closely related primates. The Russian experiments with fox domestication implies that domestication can be achieved over a few dozen generations.

Yeh, right. Like a wolf wouldn't be aware of what another creature could see, in the dark? When they do much of their hunting in the dark? They have evolved to read signals from all other animals, prey, other wolves, and enemies.
They will be just as aware as dogs of what a human can and can't see, within seconds.