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Part 2 of a lecture excerpt on Dog Body Language by Jean Donaldson. Contrasting from Happy to Stressed.

Dog body language is not only fascinating. It is also a very useful analogy to increase your understanding of human body language. Consider the commonalities and differences.

While dogs are obviously very different from human beings in the functioning of their consciousness, they do have a remarkable amount of similarities. Similar organs, similar skeletons, similar senses, and even many similar muscle groups. As you peruse this dog body language series, you will not only improve relationships with your canine friends, you will begin to look at human body language in a whole new way as well.

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Part 1 of a lecture excerpt on Dog Body Language by Jean Donaldson.

You will learn the principles used by professional animal trainers to efficiently build any behavior you can think of to any degree of difficulty you can imagine.

Jean Donaldson is the award-winning author of Oh Behave! Dogs from Pavlov to Premack to Pinker; The Culture Clash - A revolutionary new way of understanding the relationship between humans and domestic dogs; MINE! A Guide to Resource Guarding in Dogs; FIGHT! A Guide to Dog-Dog Aggression. Jean founded the San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers, which has gained the reputation as the Harvard for dog trainers and behavior counselors. She has lectured to dog trainers in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia and Japan. Her books have been translated into six languages.

Visit http://jeandonaldson.com

Official Description: “A Personal View of the Human Species by Desmond Morris. This episode focuses on the planet’s most advanced animal, beginning with a look at how man communicated before the evolution of language. Some gestures and expressions are so ingrained that we have not been able to erase them from our vocabulary.”

This is one of the best documentaries out there on body language. Not only does it cover all the popular topics (flirting body language, all sorts of nonverbal communication, tips on reading and interpreting body language, and a whole array of insights on culture and nonverbal communication).

The documentary doesn’t get deep into much of the nitty gritty details of body language and how you can apply it, but it does cover the broad topics and give the very important rooting in cultural and biological evolution that has led to where our nonverbal communication skills have arrived today.

In case you don’t know, Desmond Morris is the acclaimed author of The Naked Ape, a groundbreaking look at human beings from the perspective of a zoologist - analyzing the human race as if we were just another animal, developing specialized behaviors to get things done. Of course, the Human Animal (or Naked Ape) is quite a complicated example of “just another animal,” as anyone who seriously studies just our body language certainly knows.