i started unironically doing this and i cant stop

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    1 year ago

    My dog lives in a perpetual state of happy confusion and it pleases me so much when he does the head rotation. It never helps him understand anything but he sometimes rotates even further once I start giggling uncontrollably.

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    I saw an explanation of this once but I can’t really remember it. Something about the way their eyes or ears work, and doing this gives them like… more information on what they are looking at.

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      Ears are good at hearing left and right. Not very good at hearing up and down. Tilting the head gives left right and up and down.
      FYI owls have ears that are offset so they don’t have to tilt their head.

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        This.

        Also applies to the eyes sort of, as tilting the head offers a different axis for the stereo vision to try to make sense of whatever it’s looking at.

        IIRC, animals often do this movement instinctually when they’re puzzled by something because the additional sensory information could be helpful.

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        TIL that about owls. I couldn’t imagine it so I googled. Even their skulls show that offset!

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      Your field of view is wider than it is high. So if you look at something higher than it is wide (which many living things are) it’s more centered and clearer to see.

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    A crow gave me that head tilt once when I talked to it, and it will never not be adorable, no matter the animal