touch and Caress, stroking, pats on the rib cage give up. Those who are fond of pets, and fetch like a dog or a cat. But why is it that a dog that is pleasant?
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you Tickle a cat under its chin, or kroel down his cheeks and pat him between the eyes and the ears. Dieronderzoekers at the University of Lincoln (Uk), to call it that, is the favorite spot for your cat. Give a cat a stroke on the set, you can see in his behavior. If he likes it, he will, for example, headings give you, kind of you to go browsing or simply wink at you.
dogs, mice, and found it to be very comfortable to the pet. That’s true, probably for a host of animals that have not been explored are. According to the veterinarians at the Texas A&M University, may, in any case, also in lizards and turtles, from the pet enjoy yourself.
A turtle, you will have the neck sticking out, his eyes shut, and be quiet, and be calm, stay put, reports the website of the American diergeneeskundefaculteit.
Some animals are so good at that, fumbling?
Refined skin
In humans and in animals are the skin, different types of nerve cells, also called neurons, are called. Be a part of it that picks up pain, and passes them to the brain. Other nerve cells do for the warmteprikkels. And have fun aaiprikkels’, people and animals have specialized neurons in the skin.
For people like you, who are in the hairy areas of the skin not covered by, for example, soles of the feet. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (mit) (united states), discovered in 2013, similar to neurons in the hairy areas of the skin in mice. The different cells of the animals that they saw and with the various markers are substances that are lit when the neuron is stimulated.
After that, aaiden, kietelden and target them to the animals. If they are mice, aaiden, commented: “only one type of nerve cell to. It is poking and tickling, has stimulated other nerve cells, and let the aaineuronen’ website.
when you go to the troetelkamer
in Order to determine whether the mice are comfortable to be stroked, to be made the researchers to have a good start to the furry. They are made of a muizenhuis with three bedrooms. They had injected the mice in coming up with a way that the aaizenuwen turned on without affecting the animals and truly lapped, were. In the rechterkamer had the mice a couple of times, and a non-active salt solution to allow.
from Then on, the researchers looked at the mice in the middle chamber with the doors open. The mice are allowed to choose which room they wanted to be.
The animals were clearly in the coming, and the troetelkamer. It is encouraging that aaizenuwen gave it to the mice, apparently, is a great feeling. The researchers believe that this is also true for other animals, is true. Not only are they people pet him, but if they are each other’s fur and licking each other groom.
Good hormone
how much of the dierenbrein the aaizenuwen, their incentives are exactly the pass-through, and what is the brain area responsible for the pleasant feeling, and it is not yet known. Have discovered the biologists at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Germany), the wild chimpanzees, which is just a vlooisessie behind-the-back, more of the hormone oxytocin in their urine. This hormone causes a sense of pleasure, and your work will be stressverlagend.
Also, dogs that have their owner’s pet, and gekriebeld to make of this hormone is to it. The scientists, from the Swedish, Högskolan i Skövde, discovered in 2011, that’s when a guy, his bird can make, the more of this hormone in the dog’s create.
now, the Same hormone released in humans when they have an animal to pet. Pet is, therefore, both parties are comfortable. It is a pity that a dog or cat with us, not touching. Because of that, it would also be sometimes nice.
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