Perhaps you've had to put up with a moody, uncooperative teenager. You may well have been one yourself. A new study suggests that dogs go through a similar phase of stubbornness and disobedience when they hit puberty at about eight months old.
你身边情绪化、叛逆的青少年可能够你受的,你自己曾经可能也是其中一员。一项新的研究显示,狗狗在8个月大的时候会经历相似的倔强叛逆的阶段。
Looking at the behaviour of a total of 378 canines, researchers found that the animals were more obedient and more responsive either side of that eight-month mark – but only when it came to their owners, not to less familiar trainers.
研究人员观察了378只犬的行为,发现这些狗狗在8个月前后都更听话、反应更快,但只对主人这样,对不太熟悉的训导员就不会这样。
So not only do dogs appear to have a difficult adolescence just like we do, they also share the frustration that we often feel towards our parents or caregivers when we hit our teenage years. That has big implications for long-term canine care and sheltering.
所以狗狗不仅会像我们一样有一个麻烦的青春期,而且也和我们十多岁时一样,对父母或者照顾我们的人很失望。这对长期犬类护理和保护意义重大。
"This is a very important time in a dog's life," says animal behaviour researcher Lucy Asher, from Newcastle University in the UK. "This is when dogs are often rehomed because they are no longer a cute little puppy and suddenly, their owners find they are more challenging and they can no longer control them or train them."
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