Dog Looks Just Like a Human
My freshman year of college, an enterprising student with access to a color printer made imitation lost dog posters that showed a picture of their friend's face superimposed on a dog's torso, and posted them all over campus. The resulting image was deeply disturbing and has haunted me to this day.
So you can imagine my confusion, then, when I look at this actual dog that looks eerily human and think to myself, "hey, that's a cute dog!"
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Tell me this doesn't look like a person.
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Seriously,
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tell
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me.
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The dog's name is Yogi and he is extremely polarizing. A Reddit thread devoted to Yogi's uncanny resemblance to a human man offers a case study on the uncanny valley (or as one commenter calls it in this case, the "uncanine valley"). Much of the debate centers on whether it's his almond-shaped eyes or his pouty lip that makes Yogi look so much like a grimacing, middle-aged man. Me? I think it's the lip.
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Bye!
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Hannah writes about health, sex, and relationships for Cosmopolitan, and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Her work can also be found in the Cut, Jezebel, and Texas Monthly.
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