Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, UMR7290, Fédération 3C, 3 Place Victor Hugo, CS 80249, Bât. 9, Case D, 13331, Marseille, CEDEX 03, France.
AVA Association, 40 Le Quesnoy, 76220, Cuy-Saint-Fiacre, France.
Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 28;7(1):12384. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12577-z.
Behavioural synchronization is widespread among living beings, including humans. Pairs of humans synchronize their behaviour in various situations, such as walking together. Affiliation between dyadic partners is known to promote behavioral synchronization. Surprisingly, however, interspecific synchronization has recived little scientific investigation. Dogs are sensitive to human cues, and share strong affiliative bonds with their owners. We thus investigated whether, when allowed to move freely in an enclosed unfamiliar space, dogs synchronize their behaviour with that of their owners'. We found that dogs visibly synchronized their location with their owner (staying in close proximity and moving to the same area), as well as their activity and temporal changes in activity (moving when their owner moved, standing still when their owner stood still, and gazing in the same direction as their owner). The present study demonstrates that owners act as attractors for their dogs in an indoor space, as mothers do for their children.
行为同步在生物界中很常见，包括人类。人类在各种情况下都会同步行为，例如一起散步。对二元伙伴的依恋关系已知会促进行为同步。然而，令人惊讶的是，种间同步很少受到科学研究的关注。狗对人类的暗示很敏感，并与它们的主人建立了强烈的依恋关系。因此，我们研究了狗在自由移动的情况下是否会与主人的行为同步。我们发现狗明显地与主人的位置同步（保持近距离并移动到相同的区域），以及它们的活动和活动时间的变化同步（当主人移动时它们也移动，当主人静止时它们也静止，并且与主人看向同一方向）。本研究表明，在室内空间中，主人对狗的行为起着吸引作用，就像母亲对孩子的行为一样。
