On a random train of thought, I somehow got to wondering this, and now my curiosity won't leave me alone:
Why don't dogs dance?
I don't mean trying to train them to 'dance' with their trainer, or stand on their hind legs, but actually dance.
I know some people (myself included) who, upon hearing music, have no choice but to move to the beat, at the very least tapping a foot. But I've never seen a dog deliberately, maybe when hearing a good drum beat, start to 'dance'.
Google didn't help, from what I tried, yet like I said, now I'm really curious. I assume it has to be something with their brains being smaller, but I don't know.
Heheh, the only thing I can think of is it's just one of those things that set humans apart from the other animals. There are a few of them you know... Appreciation of music could be a higher brain function, or even some evolutionary trait we picked up.
I have seen dogs get excited where it seems like they are dancing, but that doesn't usually have anything to do with music.
EDIT: Dogs don't create music either, so they would have no real need to move to it.
This is a video of what looks like a polar bear dancing. I was shown this in my Psyc class. I can't remember exactly what our prof told us, but it is actually quite sad that they do this. It's a method of dealing with stress and their surroundings. Only bears in captivity do this.
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Haha too true, my favorite puzzler was always, "what if, like, "they" replaced every atom in my body with an identical atom last night while I was sleeping - would I still be me or just a copy of me?"
Dogs dancing would have been a good one, though. Especially if there was a dog around you could quiz about it while he sat there looking at you and wondering if you had any snacks.
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This is a video of what looks like a polar bear dancing. I was shown this in my Psyc class. I can't remember exactly what our prof told us, but it is actually quite sad that they do this. It's a method of dealing with stress and their surroundings. Only bears in captivity do this.
Funny, I'd have thought that if a bear was going to dance it would be a black bear, not a polar bear.
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