A study has revealed that dogs have the ability to read human faces, particulalrly the eyes, and dismiss non threatening expressions. They react differently to threatening expressions however depending on whether it’s coming from a human or another dog Dogs have grown to trust humans through domestication and think that they are all soppy and easy to please, therefore not worth a second glance when it comes to untoward behavior from a Homosapien. Health Day reports: While dogs read facial expressions in much the same way as people do, they consider the source of a threatening expression before deciding how to respond, a new study suggests. The dogs paid close attention to threatening faces, likely because being able to detect and avoid threats helped dogs survive as they evolved. However, they had different responses to threatening expressions, depending on whether those expressions came from other dogs or humans, the study researchers said. Dogs tended to look longer at threatening dog faces, but looked away from threatening human faces, according to the researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland. “The tolerant behavior strategy of dogs toward humans may partially explain the results. Domestication may have equipped dogs with a sensitivity to [...]