Dogs

>>9060763
*Other species

Because humans are insecure needy shitheads

>>9060776
Thanks for informed answer

>>9060763
Same DNA ?

>>9060763
Fookin prawns

>>9060763
those are chickens, op

>>9060763
Humans and dogs probably co-evolved over the last 30k or so years. The productivity and survivability boost that came with using dogs for hunting and guarding would have led to dog-lovers basically out-competing dog-haters rather fast.

Dogs might even have changed the human brain since outsourcing awareness to dogs let humans focus their brain on intellectual stuff - so without dogs we might have still been living in caves.

>>9060776
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>>9060884
This guy gets it.

It also seems humans have evolved to understand dogs. The co-evolution is rather profound.

I also had a dog.

>>9060763
>Is there a biological reason humans form emotional bonds with animals of species?

Dogs being a part of your "family" gave an advantage -- protection from predators, assistance in hunting, eat the scraps before the rot... People who liked dogs being around survived in greater percentages than those who did not.

>>9060763
Humans are social animals and use pets as a substitution for humans.

>>9062712
Cats also provided some advantages but humans do not connect as well with cats as with dogs.

>>9060884
Bullshit, dogs aren't shit. Fuck dogs.

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>>9062893
When we say we love dogs, we do not mean we promote beastiality, anon.

>>9062881
Perhaps cats provide less advantage? They are good for pest control, almost as good for cleaning up the scraps, but not so good as hunting companions -- so we have not been as strongly solected to like them.

>>9062910
>solected
selected

Either my typing is getting worse, or this keyboard is shit.

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>>9062910
Hard to tell. Do we even know how well suited dogs were originally for use in hunting?

The strange thing is that dogs are very specialised - shepherds will, well, shepherd herds but are not suited for hunting birds and vice versa. And dogs cannot be taught to do things outside what they were bred for. I am not sure why since there is no doubt that dogs are intelligent and can learn. Some say dogs can learn to understand 40 words.

Dogs also know when they prefer not to understand...

>>9060884
>outsourcing awareness to dogs
What exactly do you mean?

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>>9064471
Instead of having to be constantly aware of potential predators, we have puppers that can smell/hear things much better than us so humans can focus on other things like tracking/hunting

i read the same thing about dogs and humans changing eachother's brain structure over course of their co-evolution but i cant find the source at the moment

>>9064495
>dogs and humans changing eachother's brain structure over course of their co-evolution
BBC News has had a lot of articles about this topic.

I hate dogs. They look like shit.

>>9065070
>I excrete white fluffy poo.
Please see a doctor, anon.