Can dogs sniff out your stress?
The human-dog relationship started long ago. Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs were the first animals domesticated by humans more than 30,000 years ago. Now, a recent study published in PLOS states that dogs can detect the physiological processes associated with psychological stress in humans with an accuracy of 93.75 per cent. Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell. As part of the study, researchers analysed whether dogs could sense the…