Hot dogs

Photographer

Eddy Verloes

Category

Special Category - Comedy Photography

Company

VLT

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2025

Country / Region:

Belgium

Hot dogs. Dogs are people,too. According to neuroscientist Gregory Berns, "dogs are people, too". He reached this conclusion after performing MRI scans on over a dozen dogs, finding the same brain region responsible for positive emotions in humans is activated in dogs as well. What do we know about dog emotions? We have now come to understand that dogs possess all of the same brain structures that produce emotions in humans. Dogs have the same hormones and undergo the same chemical changes that humans do during emotional states. Dogs even have the hormone oxytocin, which, in humans, is involved with feeling love and affection for others. With the same neurology and chemistry that people have, it seems reasonable to suggest that dogs also have emotions that are similar to ours. However, it is important to not go overboard and immediately assume that the emotional ranges of dogs and humans are the same. This series is also a kind of 'Comedy Photography'.

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