Bunny responds by pressing the button that says “paw.” “Where ouch?” asked Alexis Devine, Bunny’s owner. She presses the soundboard buttons for “mad” and then “ouch.” In one very well-known video, Bunny tells her owner something is wrong. She’s a sheep-a-doodle in Washington state who has millions of followers on TikTok. Of all the dogs who’ve become stars on social media, Bunny is the biggest. "She’s saying, ‘I want the cat that is sitting up there to come down.’ And she would literally push all those buttons, one after the other.” “So, for example, Bunny, the most famous participant in our study, would say things like ‘dog want cat down,’” Rossano said. So, as long as she has a need to communicate or a need for new words, we’ll continue."īased on the evidence he’s seen so far, Rossano gives a qualified “yes.” He said it has become his working hypothesis. "Our goal was just to improve her quality of life. “So our goal was never to hit a certain word count or a certain number of followers," Arco said. Arco said her dog Mila, who now uses 31 different words, has more than 240,000 followers on Instagram. Some of the dogs in the project have become stars on social media. Dogs use soundboards, whose buttons they press with a paw or a nose, to communicate humans words, thoughts - maybe even sentences. Scientists at UC San Diego are leading what they call the biggest community science project ever done on animal communication. Taylor Arco is one of 1,200 people in 47 countries expected to provide data about their dogs' ability to communicate. The buttons say things like 'play,' 'potty,' 'outside,' 'eat' and 'scritches,' which are scratchy caresses dogs like. The soundboard is an array of buttons set into plastic tiles that owners can arrange however they want. So, ‘eat’.”Īrco is talking about the word-buttons Mila pushes with her nose on her soundboard at home. “She also likes to ask for ‘walk’ and she never lets us forget when it’s time to eat. “She uses attention words like ‘scritches’ and ‘love you’ a lot,” said Taylor Arco, Mila’s owner.
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