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Any dog owner would testify that dogs are just as prone to jealousy as humans. 任何狗主人都能作证，狗狗简直和人一样容易嫉妒。 But can one really compare Othello’s agony to Roscoe’s pique? 但真的有人能把罗斯科(Roscoe)的愤懑与奥赛罗(Othello)的痛苦相提并论吗？ The answer, according to Christine Harris, a psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, is that if you are petting another dog, Roscoe is going to show something that Dr. Harris thinks is a form of jealousy, even if not as complex and twisted as the adult human form. 加州大学圣迭戈分校(University of California, San Diego)的心理学家克里斯蒂娜·哈里斯(Christine Harris)表示，答案是，如果你抚摸另一只狗，罗斯科会有某种表现。哈里斯博士认为，这种表现是嫉妒的一种形式，尽管这种形式不像成年人类的嫉妒形式那么复杂、扭曲。 Other scientists agree there is something going on, but not all are convinced it is jealousy. And Roscoe and the rest of his tribe were, without exception, unavailable for comment. 其他一些科学家也认同这种情形下会出现某种情况，但并不都相信那是嫉妒。而罗斯科和他的同类，无一例外均不便发表评论。 Dr. Harris had been studying human jealousy for years when she took this question on, inspired partly by the antics of her parents’ Border collies. When she petted them, “one would take his head and knock the other’s head away,” she said. It certainly looked like jealousy. | 
