“Some of them actually approached him and started scratching at him and sniffing at him and then looking back at the box so they were really trying to communicate with him,” Green said.
This “gaze” has been observed in other animals when asking humans for help, but lead author Dr Alan McElligott said generally that was true only for those that had been domesticated for hundreds of years.
“Indeed, kangaroos showed a very similar pattern of behaviour we have seen in dogs, horses and even goats when put to the same test.”
Green said the study added to the idea that interspecies communication could be learned by any creature with enough brainpower.
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