Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have investigated the nature of relationships between dogs and their owners. It turned out that the owner-dog relationship shows significant similarities to the parent-child relationship in humans. Although dogs were in adult age, they behaved as if they were the offspring of their caregivers. Owners at the same time show the kind of care and attachment to their dogs that they have towards their own children.
We often hear stories about pups of different species growing up together in a zoo (or in the
backyard of gangsters) who make lifelong ties that we would call friendship. It seems that living beings exempt from the harsh conditions of natural competition tend to seek love and attachment just as humans do. Can this prove that
Maslow's pyramid applies to all higher order creatures on Earth?
Read more about the experiment
here.
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