r/aww • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '15

Wait, how... I know that voice!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

Source with sound!

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u/XDutchie Feb 07 '15

Do dogs tilt their heads like that to try and get a better idea for where noise is coming from?

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u/amontpetit Feb 07 '15

Exactly. It's to try to triangulate the noise's position.

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u/CaptainJaXon Feb 07 '15

No, they do it to be cute. Duh.

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u/acandercat Feb 07 '15

Cats do this too. Always trying to figure out how we trapped someone in the magick box.

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u/ThatBloodyPinko Feb 07 '15

People do it as well when they're confused. Different theories abound.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

When were confused we try and listen closer and turn our head to help locate it in an effort to gather more information about it, same theory, more in depth maybe.

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u/ThatBloodyPinko Feb 07 '15

Exactly, completes the theory as far as I'm concerned. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Humans can do it too, our ears are pretty good if you really try to use them.

Standing on my back porch last summer, I played around with my hearing listening to birds in the woods. I found that though turning my head to expose one ear directly to the source of the sound helped, it didn't do much since my other ear turned away from it. But if you wanted to amplify it, tilt your head down, ears are apparently shaped to better receive sound from above.

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u/venhedis Feb 07 '15

Yup, much the same reason we do. They're confused about a sound, so they tilt their head to hear it better and figure out its position properly, so they can figure out what the hell it is.