Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human.

Horowitz introduces the reader to dogsâ€™ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. Whatâ€™s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans, or even the passage of time? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? Whatâ€™s it like to use your mouth as a hand? In short, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees?

Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more. The answers can be surprisingâ€”once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute researchâ€”on dogsâ€™ detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attentionâ€”that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a formal training guide, Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do. With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself.

Country	USA
Author	Alexandra Horowitz
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781416588276
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	372
PublicationDate	2009-09-03
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2009-09-15
Studio	Scribner

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

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