• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’d say we need it for dogs, but we all know what they’d say. “feed me! Pet me! Hi, my name’s Roger! Feed me! Pet me!”

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        2 years ago

        Honestly, any decent dog owner can read the signs that their dog makes in terms of basic communication. We co-evolved after all. I don’t know how much a dog translator would be especially useful.

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          2 years ago

          This is off memory but I think the motivations were

          • pure science
          • monitoring the state of dogs for all the hours a person can’t be there to watch them.