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Dogs Demonstrate Intentional Communication Using Soundboards, Study Finds
New research from UC San Diego reveals dogs can use soundboards to communicate intentionally, forming two-word combinations like "outside" and "potty" to make specific requests. The study, based on 21 months of data from 152 dogs, shows these behaviours are deliberate rather than random, with potential to transform human-canine relationships. Futur...
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Dogs Can Understand Human Words Without Gestures and Context, Claims Study
If you have been following social media trends recently, you might have noticed the viral videos featuring dogs using soundboard buttons to communicate with their owners. These videos often show dogs pressing buttons labelled with words like "outside," "play," or "food," leading to claims that dogs can form near-sentences and make requests or alert...
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Research Suggests Cats Mourn The Death Of Companion Animals, Even Dogs
The research, based on a survey of 412 pet owners, found that surviving cats exhibited signs of grief-like behaviors, such as increased vocalization, changes in appetite, and altered sleep patterns.
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Dog-Killing "Liver Fluke" Parasite Spreading Fast Across US
The researchers tested 2,000 snails on the banks of the Colorado River between March and August 2023 after finding out several dogs infected by parasite had gone there.
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Small Dogs With Long Nose Live Longer Than Large Flat-Faced Ones: Research
Small dogs with long noses, such as whippets and miniature dachshunds, live for years longer than large flat-faced breeds such as English bulldogs, new research said on Thursday.
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Dogs Rely on Multisensory Mental Images to Easily Identify Their Favourite Objects, Says New Study
Dogs often manage to locate a particular toy they are obsessed with from a pile of other objects. A new study has suggested that this may be due to their ability to form a multi-modal mental image of familiar objects. Researchers tried to understand how pooches visualize their favourite objects while thinking of them, while testing their ability t...
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Study Says Eating Hot Dogs May Shorten Healthy Life By 36 Mins, Here's What To Eat Instead
Did you know hot dogs could shorten healthy life by 36 minutes according to a latest study? Here are all the important findings from the study.
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Drop Everything And Look At This Dog Meeting His Best Friend, A Dolphin
Gunner the dog and Delta the dolphin have created a huge splash on social media with their adorable friendship.
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People Travelling With A Dog Drive More Cautiously: Study
A dog is indeed man's best friend. And, an apt example for the same is that the drivers travelling with a pet dog feel less stressed behind the wheel and they encourage them to drive more cautiously. According to the report from SEAT UK, it is learnt that a dog has a positive effect on the motorist while driving as they help them drive more careful...
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Sniffer Dogs Could Help Identify And Eradicate Malaria
Steven Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University in England, has been researching malaria control for decades. His preferred approach, he says, is to "sit on the boundaries," drumming up ideas that others might not. So it's perhaps unsurprising that his latest project was inspired by the baggage-claim area at Dulles International A...
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Goats Are "Attentive", Prefer Happy People, Says This Research
Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, "are not considered to be the smartest cookies," said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal ...
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In China, Pet Dogs Were Killed. Today, This One Lives In A $500,000 House
The Chinese are projected to spend the equivalent of $7 billion on furry friends by 2022, a surge from $2.6 billion last year, according to the German market research firm Euromonitor.
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Dogs Can Read Human Facial Expressions, Claims Study
A new research conducted by Springer claims that dogs use different parts of their brain to process negative and positive emotions cued by human facial expressions.
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'Milk of Cats, Dogs Of No Use': Meet Animal, Sorry Cow Welfare Board
The government's Animal Welfare Board, the main agency for framing laws for the protection of animals, has a predominance of members dedicated to cause of the cow. At least eight out of 10 independent board members are associated with cow research and cow shelters or have been vocal about cow protection.
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First Dogs Originated Here Say Scientists From China
Chinese scientists claimed that dogs have originated in southern China some 33,000 years ago, disputing US research that domesticated dogs evolved 15,000 years ago in Central Asia.
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Dogs Demonstrate Intentional Communication Using Soundboards, Study Finds
New research from UC San Diego reveals dogs can use soundboards to communicate intentionally, forming two-word combinations like "outside" and "potty" to make specific requests. The study, based on 21 months of data from 152 dogs, shows these behaviours are deliberate rather than random, with potential to transform human-canine relationships. Futur...
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Dogs Can Understand Human Words Without Gestures and Context, Claims Study
If you have been following social media trends recently, you might have noticed the viral videos featuring dogs using soundboard buttons to communicate with their owners. These videos often show dogs pressing buttons labelled with words like "outside," "play," or "food," leading to claims that dogs can form near-sentences and make requests or alert...
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Research Suggests Cats Mourn The Death Of Companion Animals, Even Dogs
The research, based on a survey of 412 pet owners, found that surviving cats exhibited signs of grief-like behaviors, such as increased vocalization, changes in appetite, and altered sleep patterns.
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Dog-Killing "Liver Fluke" Parasite Spreading Fast Across US
The researchers tested 2,000 snails on the banks of the Colorado River between March and August 2023 after finding out several dogs infected by parasite had gone there.
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Small Dogs With Long Nose Live Longer Than Large Flat-Faced Ones: Research
Small dogs with long noses, such as whippets and miniature dachshunds, live for years longer than large flat-faced breeds such as English bulldogs, new research said on Thursday.
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Dogs Rely on Multisensory Mental Images to Easily Identify Their Favourite Objects, Says New Study
Dogs often manage to locate a particular toy they are obsessed with from a pile of other objects. A new study has suggested that this may be due to their ability to form a multi-modal mental image of familiar objects. Researchers tried to understand how pooches visualize their favourite objects while thinking of them, while testing their ability t...
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Study Says Eating Hot Dogs May Shorten Healthy Life By 36 Mins, Here's What To Eat Instead
Did you know hot dogs could shorten healthy life by 36 minutes according to a latest study? Here are all the important findings from the study.
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Drop Everything And Look At This Dog Meeting His Best Friend, A Dolphin
Gunner the dog and Delta the dolphin have created a huge splash on social media with their adorable friendship.
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People Travelling With A Dog Drive More Cautiously: Study
A dog is indeed man's best friend. And, an apt example for the same is that the drivers travelling with a pet dog feel less stressed behind the wheel and they encourage them to drive more cautiously. According to the report from SEAT UK, it is learnt that a dog has a positive effect on the motorist while driving as they help them drive more careful...
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Sniffer Dogs Could Help Identify And Eradicate Malaria
Steven Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University in England, has been researching malaria control for decades. His preferred approach, he says, is to "sit on the boundaries," drumming up ideas that others might not. So it's perhaps unsurprising that his latest project was inspired by the baggage-claim area at Dulles International A...
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Goats Are "Attentive", Prefer Happy People, Says This Research
Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, "are not considered to be the smartest cookies," said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal ...
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In China, Pet Dogs Were Killed. Today, This One Lives In A $500,000 House
The Chinese are projected to spend the equivalent of $7 billion on furry friends by 2022, a surge from $2.6 billion last year, according to the German market research firm Euromonitor.
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Dogs Can Read Human Facial Expressions, Claims Study
A new research conducted by Springer claims that dogs use different parts of their brain to process negative and positive emotions cued by human facial expressions.
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'Milk of Cats, Dogs Of No Use': Meet Animal, Sorry Cow Welfare Board
The government's Animal Welfare Board, the main agency for framing laws for the protection of animals, has a predominance of members dedicated to cause of the cow. At least eight out of 10 independent board members are associated with cow research and cow shelters or have been vocal about cow protection.
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First Dogs Originated Here Say Scientists From China
Chinese scientists claimed that dogs have originated in southern China some 33,000 years ago, disputing US research that domesticated dogs evolved 15,000 years ago in Central Asia.
