🔬 Science 19h ago · Niranjana Rajalakshmi

Why do dogs tilt their heads? It isn’t just cute.

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Why do dogs tilt their heads? It isn’t just cute.
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There are countless TikTok videos that go like this: Someone says something to their dog, the dog’s head swings to one side, with ears up and eyes on the owner. Whoever’s filming can barely hold the camera steady because it’s just too dang cute. Whether it’s online or in person, we’ve all seen dogs tilt their heads—and yet scientists don’t know why they do it. 



“Dogs are singularly situated to be sentinels [mirrors] of the human experience,” Courtney Sexton, a pos

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