We pan back to see the stroller racing down the street towards the car,” commented a Reddit user. Back to the owner tossing the dog and it lands funny maybe breaking a leg. We see a man running out of his house in flip flops but at the last min he ditches them. “I imagine this is the start of a Final Destination sene the guy let’s go of a stroller and we cut scene to a car backing down a driveway. The video has gone viral and managed to gather tons of reactions. There is also another man in the frame who rushes towards the man and the stroller to save the baby. While all of this chaos happens, the stroller carrying baby moves away. The entire incident has been captured in a CCTV camera. In the video, the other canine can be seen racing out of a house. “My dog bolted out the front door and anarchy ensued,” read the caption of the video. As a reaction to this, the man immediately lets go of the stroller to protect the dog. Suddenly, another dog appears in the frame and is seen running towards the man and the dog. The video, which has been uploaded on Reddit, shows a man carrying a baby in a stroller outside his house while a dog is continuously following him. Hopkin: For Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Karen Hopkin.A video that is doing rounds on the internet shows a man letting go of a stroller carrying a baby to save a dog. Hopkin: So dogs turn on the waterworks and their owners roll over. Kikusui: …suggesting that teary eyes of dogs can facilitate the human caregiving behavior. Hopkin: The volunteers were more likely to want to cuddle and care for the mutts with big, wet puppy-dog eyes… And the other was teary dog face in which we added artificial tears. But to what end? In other words, is there some benefit to this lachrymose behavior? To find out, Kikusui and his colleagues showed volunteers a couple of hound head shots. Kikusui: So we applied oxytocin to the dogs’ eyes. And oxytocin receptors have been found to be abundant in the glands that secrete tears in mice. They had shown previously that oxytocin is boosted when dogs interact with their owners. Hopkin: The researchers suspected that the tearful reaction was stimulated by oxytocin…a hormone associated with social bonding. Kikusui: There was no increase in tears when the dogs were separated from the owner and reunited with the dogs’ caretaker in a dog care center. Hopkin: But it only worked with the dog’s owner. And found that the reunion with the owner stimulate tear secretion. Kikusui: When the owner came back, we measure tear volume again. Hopkin: Then the owner would high-tail it off for five or six hours. Kikusui: In the test, we initially measure the baseline tear volumes when dogs were together with the owner in their house.
That potential connection between unbearable cuteness and unshed tears sent Kikusui scurrying away from his poodle and back to the lab. Hopkin: At some point Kikusui, who’s a professor of veterinary medicine at Azabu University in Japan, realized that his adorable mama dog had tears in her eyes. Takefumi Kikusui: When she was nursing her puppies, her face becomes so cute. Takefumi Kikusui became interested in doggies’ damp and adoring gazes while watching his pet poodle interact with her pups. The findings appear in the journal Current Biology. I’m Karen Hopkin.Īfter an exhausting day at the office, it’s hard not to smile when you’re greeted by a delirious display of uncontrolled canine joy.īut it’s not just the happy yapping and wriggling tail wagging that tug at our heartstrings.īecause a new study shows that dogs’ eyes fill with tears when reunited with their people…an effect that evokes our nurturing instincts. Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science.
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