Study suggests little dogs lift legs higher to fool other dogs into thinking they are bigger

Monday, August 6, 2018 - 08:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A team of researchers at Cornell University has found evidence suggesting that little dogs lift their legs when peeing at a higher angle than bigger dogs as a means of tricking other dogs into thinking they are bigger than they actually are. In their paper published in Journal of Zoology, the group describes a study they carried out with volunteer dogs and what they found.

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