always been a piffle doubtful．Now thanks to some researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria; we finally have some convincing evidence．

For their stud y, biologist Corson Miller and his team exposés eleven selected dogs to digital images of women that were either angry or pappy．Half the dogs were rewired for touching the screen when shove a happy face, while the other half gilt their treat for selecting those that appeared angry．

Interestingly, the dogs were not provided with the entire face．Some dogs were show Ti only upper halves while the others observed lower halves．That's because the scientists believe humans show their eruptions on their equities face．

After some training ill．e how to recognize small differences like the wrinkles between the eyes or the changes in their shape that accompany the happy or angry expressions, the dogs were mostly able to identify the correct expression not only on a familiar face but on a strange face, the researchers concluded the dogs were smart-enough to read human emotions．They also found those being trained to．read angry expressions took a’ longer tune to lean．They guess it may be because dogs find angry faces disgusting, causing them to withdraw quickly．However, once the smart dogs realized they were getting rewired, the trepidation seem．end 'to disappear．In fact, the dogs had such a good time playing the computer "game" That scientists had a hard tune keeping them away from the touch screens after the study was completed．

The researchers also noticed only dogs with a male owner had a harder time understanding the expressions correctly．Since the touches．careen models were all females, this confirmed what has been observed in previous studies-dogs are more efficient．at reading facial