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Old 03-31-2007, 12:15 PM   #4
Karenv
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The media isn't the message

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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post


More likely pandas take in information differently than people, and the images he sees are so obviously NOT pandas that the whole thing doesn't matter to him.

We see television images as representations and can make that extra step to understand that what we're seeing is a moving image of something else, but that's a pretty complicated process. The animals I've known have not been able to process non-moving pictures, never mind moving ones. My dog doesn't care what's on TV, until the audio is meaningful - something barks - which is a more realistic representation of another dog, to him.
Maybe he just needs a live demonstration.
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