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PETS Can animals speak
SOME people say the best conversations they have are with their pets, they listen and sympathise with us, but here is the question do they un‐derstand us? Can we actually communi ‐cate with our pets?
The answer is yes. We communicate with our pets verbal‐ly and with facial ex‐pressions and ges ‐tures. Our pets then answer us with cer ‐tain postures, and fa‐cial expressions, by barking and meow ‐ing, etc.. in fact, some animal experts have detected up to 21 different meows! Obviously, we can ‐not chat with ani ‐mals in the same way we can with our friends and family, but it has certainly been proven we can understand each other perfectly. Sci‐entists have com ‐pleted many studies to show that dogs can follow human communication. We all know that we can train a dog to follow certain demands like sitting, but a study also found that dogs interpret voices in the same part of their brain as we do. Not only that but it’s been shown that dogs use the left part of their brain to pro‐cess the meaning of a word and the right side to interpret the tone of voice used al‐so just like us and have been known to master words in the same manner as young human chil ‐dren.
So, feel free to continue chatting with your pets but maybe not in public!