Giant pandas can discriminate the emotions of human facial pictures

Previous studies have shown that giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) can discriminate face-like shapes, but little is known about their cognitive ability with respect to the emotional expressions of humans. We tested whether adult giant pandas can discriminate expressions from pictures of half of...

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Autores principales: Li, Youxu, Dai, Qiang, Hou, Rong, Zhang, Zhihe, Chen, Peng, Xue, Rui, Feng, Feifei, Chen, Chao, Liu, Jiabin, Gu, Xiaodong, Zhang, Zejun, Qi, Dunwu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28814756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08789-y
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author Li, Youxu
Dai, Qiang
Hou, Rong
Zhang, Zhihe
Chen, Peng
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Chen, Chao
Liu, Jiabin
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Zhang, Zejun
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description Previous studies have shown that giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) can discriminate face-like shapes, but little is known about their cognitive ability with respect to the emotional expressions of humans. We tested whether adult giant pandas can discriminate expressions from pictures of half of a face and found that pandas can learn to discriminate between angry and happy expressions based on global information from the whole face. Young adult pandas (5–7 years old) learned to discriminate expressions more quickly than older individuals (8–16 years old), but no significant differences were found between females and males. These results suggest that young adult giant pandas are better at discriminating emotional expressions of humans. We showed for the first time that the giant panda, can discriminate the facial expressions of humans. Our results can also be valuable for the daily care and management of captive giant pandas.
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spelling pubmed-55594572017-08-18 Giant pandas can discriminate the emotions of human facial pictures Li, Youxu Dai, Qiang Hou, Rong Zhang, Zhihe Chen, Peng Xue, Rui Feng, Feifei Chen, Chao Liu, Jiabin Gu, Xiaodong Zhang, Zejun Qi, Dunwu Sci Rep Article Previous studies have shown that giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) can discriminate face-like shapes, but little is known about their cognitive ability with respect to the emotional expressions of humans. We tested whether adult giant pandas can discriminate expressions from pictures of half of a face and found that pandas can learn to discriminate between angry and happy expressions based on global information from the whole face. Young adult pandas (5–7 years old) learned to discriminate expressions more quickly than older individuals (8–16 years old), but no significant differences were found between females and males. These results suggest that young adult giant pandas are better at discriminating emotional expressions of humans. We showed for the first time that the giant panda, can discriminate the facial expressions of humans. Our results can also be valuable for the daily care and management of captive giant pandas. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5559457/ /pubmed/28814756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08789-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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