The dog is sleeping. I’m petting him. Suddenly, he springs up and runs out into the street in a very agitated gallop. From sleep to gallop — it takes a split second. He exits into the courtyard about 10 meters away, and there’s a plastic flap. Outside, he rushes to the far corner of an almost opaque fence, and from my high vantage point, I can see that this is because his owner is walking by with another dog. This happens all the time. Furthermore, Yuka somehow senses our car approaching the house. True, it has to pass by us before turning around and driving into the yard. But one cannot simply listen and categorize the noise of every car that passes by. For the record, I don’t hear them at all.
How do they sense it? After all, there are so many barriers; it’s open air, and the dog, it seems to me, doesn’t make any sound at all (here, dogs hardly ever bark).
Obviously, smell and hearing play their role. Perhaps something else too? I bought a book on the topic to read. Alpina Publisher has just released a translation into Russian: “Ed Yong. The Unseen World: How Animals Perceive the Reality Hidden from Us”.
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