This experiment is one of the (so-far) few that explicitly consider the ‘Kicking the Barking Dog Effect‘: “Effects of anger and trigger identity on triggered displaced aggression among college students: based on the ‘kicking the barking dog effect’, ” Shen Liu, Wenxiu Li, Xinwei Hong, Minghua Song, Feng Liu, Zhibin Guo, and Lin Zhang, BMC […]
Many types of silencer are already commercially available – trumpet silencers, gun silencers, social media silencers & etc – now there is a new variant, a dog silencer (proposed by a research team at Niigata University, Japan) which can help to attenuate nuisance dog barks, especially at kennels. “This study is related to the use […]
With the video above in mind, here’s an hypothesis (or, if you prefer, a hypothesis) : • Do bigger dogs (by and large) have longer, more voluminous vocal tracts? And, if so, might they bark with lower notes? The hypothesis was broadly confirmed in a comprehensive 1999 experimental study by investigators professor Tobias Riede and […]
“ Although it is one of the most conspicuous features of dog behaviour, barking has received little attention from ethologists or from an applied perspective.” This lack of attention has been remedied by new research from the Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. A team from the university’s Department of Ethology, finds, in […]
