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roadriverrail posted about this. So adorable.

Norbert Rosing was a photographer visiting Churchill, Manitoba, planning to take photos of sled dogs. One night, a polar bear came to camp but the dogs were tethered. The dogs barked at the bear but also gave it an invitation to play, bowing down and wagging their tails. And surprisingly, the bear played. They romped around for a good 20 minutes that night and the bear kept coming back to play for 2 weeks. How cool is that?

You can read a bit more about it: http://nifplay.org/polar-husky.html

When I was a kid and first heard about this playful bow that dogs did, I then bowed to dogs I met, getting down on all fours and lowering my elbows to the ground so my head was lower than my butt. I waggled my rear and hoped that they would understand that I was tailless and couldn't wag a tail properly. And a couple of times, they did respond in kind and I laughed and rolled around with the dogs until it was time to go home.