phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at o:3982 DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111811 Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human Although dogs exhibit remarkable capabilities for interacting with humans, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. Here, we investigated canine perspective taking by challenging dogs to decide whether and where to steal food in the absence of a human who had prohibited them from doing so. The dogs could only infer the experimenter's presence through a sound (carrot chopping) they had perceived during a prior exploration phase, in which they also had the opportunity to observe from which locations in the room the human was visible. In the test, the majority of dogs preferred to steal from a plate that was not visible from the location where the human had chopped carrots before when they heard a playback of the chopping sound but not when they heard a control sound (street noise). These findings provide evidence that dogs anticipate the behavior of humans without relying on observable visual cues. eng Visual Perspective Domestic Dogs Familiaris Chimpanzees Attention Infants Mind Communication Cognition 2025-03-28T09:41:02.251Z LOMv1.0 Author BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Huber;Ludwig; FN:Ludwig Huber X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0217-136X END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:van der Wolf;Pauline; FN:Pauline van der Wolf END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Menkveld;Machteld; FN:Machteld Menkveld END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Riemer;Stefanie; FN:Stefanie Riemer X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8008-5291 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Völter;Christoph J; FN:Christoph J Völter X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8368-7201 END:VCARD https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/scheme https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/text Textdokument Text LOMv1.0 yes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf 3309255 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:3982 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/api/object/o:3982/thumbnail LOMv1.0 discipline