Simon Lee                                                                     Approximately  180 Words

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Scientific Writing 105-19

Why a Goat may Stare at You with Puppy Dog Eyes

This article is about why certain animals that are domesticated, such as dogs and goats, look at humans with the unmistakeable “puppy dog eyes”. These researchers conducted a simple experiment by putting food in a container with a lid and making the goat open it. Once the goats were successfully able to do that the researchers made the lid unremovable. When humans were looking at the goat, the goat would almost immediately look at the researchers when it was not able to remove the lid. The researching team suggest that many animals will exhibit similar behavior only after spending significant amounts of times with humans.I think this is an effective public-facing article because it is short and captivating.  The writer is able to remove all the complex scientific terms that would be in a typical scientific article and made it so that people without a scientific background could enjoy the article and learn something.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/why-a-goat-may-stare-at-you-with-puppy-dog-eyes/