Kukhona labo abaqinisekisa ukuthi bahlukanisa okwehlukile imizwelo en isimo sobuso benja yakho, into enengqondo ngokuphelele uma sinaka ukuthi ngisho nochwepheshe abadume kakhulu benze izifundo ezibonisa ukuthi lezi zilwane ziyakwazi ukuveza imizwa yazo. Ukuhleka kungenye yazo.
Sijwayele ukubona uhlobo lokumamatheka luvela ebusweni babo njalo lapho bedlala, behamba noma bephumula ngemuva kohambo, into efana naleyo eyenzeka kubantu. Leli qiniso lafundwa okokuqala ngu usosayensi uKonrad Lorenz, owathi: "lapho imamatheka, inja ivula imihlathi yayo kancane futhi ikhombise ulimi lwayo kancane." Lokhu yilokhu okuwinwa yiNobel Prize in Medicine akuqinisekisayo encwadini yakhe ethi "Man meets dog", 2002.
Muva nje, ngo-2011, imiphumela yocwaningo iholwa ngu USolwazi Nicholas Dodman, ovela eCummings School of Veterinary Medicine eTufts University (eMassachusetts). Uphetha ngokuthi lezi zilwane ziyakwazi ukuqonda imizwa nokumamatheka, zenze ubuso ngezindebe zazo. Uqhubeka athi banamahlaya abo.
Ngakolunye uhlangothi, uchwepheshe wokuziphatha kwe-canine uPatricia Simonet, wase-University of Sierra Nevada (e-USA) wafunda “ukuhleka” kwezinja zisebenzisa imibhobho enamandla, zaziqopha ngenkathi zidlala zodwa. Uveze ukuthi ukuhefuzela kwabo kwehlukile ngesikhathi bezithokozisa kakhulu, bephefumula ngokwengeziwe. «Endlebeni yomuntu engaqeqeshiwe, ukuhleka kwenja kungenza umsindo ofana ne- a hha, hha«, Kuchaza uSimonet.
Uma sibheka kahle, singahlukanisa lokhu kuhleka nokumamatheka esilwaneni sethu. Sizobona ukuthi kanjani welula izindebe futhi aphakamise amakhona, avule kancane umlomo aveze amazinyo nolimi. Konke kuhambisane nokuhamba okuncanyana nokuhamba phambili komsila. Kuzozibonakalisa kanjena ikakhulukazi ngesikhathi sabo sokudlala nathi nezinye izinja.