Israeli prison guards to study dog language

Prison guards to study dog language

Israeli prison guards are being trained to understand dog language so they can tell the difference between barks.

Scientific analysis has shown dogs bark differently depending on what they have seen, from a prisoner escaping to a stray cat in the yard.

According to Israeli paper Jedijot Achronot, the training of the guards to understand the language of dogs is being carried out by a system that electronically analyses the guard dogs' bark in each prison.

The system uses a traffic light to distinguish between three main warning levels: green indicates the barking is harmless, yellow reports a suspicious situation while red confirms a prisoner is on the loose.

The idea is that guards on patrol will soon learn to tell when a bark should be acted upon.