A cikin shekarun da suka gabata, kimiyya ta nuna cewa mutane da karnuka suna da abubuwan da suke ji kamar farin ciki, baƙin ciki, ko tsoro. Kamar mu, suna fuskantar jin kai, kulawa da wasu, da damuwa, a tsakanin sauran motsin zuciyarmu. Bambancin ya ta'allaka ne da yadda muke bayyana su, kodayake nau'ikan jinsin suna da alamomi masu mahimmanci ga harshen jikinmu; a zahiri, idan muka lura da kyau, zamu ga hakan karnuka ma suna murmushi.
Murmushi a masarautar dabba
Karatun ya nuna cewa murmushin bai kebanta ga dan Adam ba, tunda dabbobi irin su chimpanzee, dabbar dolphin ko bera suna da wannan alamar. Kare baya da nisa, wani abu da ba abin mamaki bane idan muka yi la'akari da ƙawancen motsin rai da yake da shi da mutum. Kari akan haka, karnuka sun fita waje don tsananin tausayin su, shi yasa suke amfani da shi murmushi kafa alaƙa mai raɗaɗi da zamantakewar jama'a.
Nazarin kimiyya
Wannan tambayar ta ja hankalin masana ilimin lissafi da masana kimiyya a cikin shekarun da suka gabata. Karin bayanai, alal misali, aikin Nobel Prize in Medicine Konrad lorenz, wanda ya rubuta game da dariyar waɗannan dabbobi a cikin littafinsa Mutum ya hadu da kare (2002). A ciki ya bayyana ta da waɗannan kalmomin: "Yayin murmushi, kare yana buɗe muƙamuƙinsa kaɗan kuma yana nuna harshensa kaɗan.
Bayan wani lokaci daga baya, a cikin 2005, marigayi masanin ilimin canine Patricia tsamiya, daga Jami'ar Sierra Nevada (Amurka), sun yi wani sanannen gwaji don neman ƙarin game da dariyar kare. Ya yi rikodin da makirufo sautukan da yawancin karnuka suka yi yayin da suke wasa da juna a wuraren shakatawa, don haka ya gano cewa akwai wani irin yanayi na haki wanda ke nuna farin ciki da nishaɗi. «Ga kunnen ɗan adam da ba shi da tarbiyya, dariyar kare zai yi sauti mai kama da a huh, huh«, Ya bayyana Simonet. Mun sami ƙarin bayanai akan wannan binciken a cikin masu zuwa mahada.
A nasa bangaren, likitan dabbobi kuma darektan sashen halayyar dabbobi a Jami'ar Tufts da ke Massachusetts (Amurka) Nicholas dodman, ya bayyana cewa karnuka ba murmushi kawai suke yi ba, har ma suna da nasu abin dariya.
Ta yaya kare yake murmushi?
Ba abu ne mai sauki mu fahimci murmushin kare ba, amma akwai wasu alamun da zasu taimaka mana mu gane shi. Ya yi daidai da na ɗan adam kuma yawanci yana tare da nishaɗi da halaye na wasa. Yana da halin kusurwar baki mai tsayi, koyaushe a bude, tare da annashuwa idanu da kunnuwa a baya. Zai zama mafi sauki a gare mu mu gano idan muka dauki lokaci tare da kare kuma muka mai da hankali gare shi, don sanin ma'anar halayensa.