K9 Chemistry: A Safer Way to Train Explosives and Narcotics Detection Dogs
Canine trainers may no longer need to handle or expose dogs to real explosives and narcotics. Trained dogs are incredible chemical sensors, far better at…
Canine trainers may no longer need to handle or expose dogs to real explosives and narcotics. Trained dogs are incredible chemical sensors, far better at…
Trained dogs might be able to detect people infected with COVID-19 by sniffing their sweat, according to a preliminary proof-of-concept study. This proof-of-concept study was…
Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words which differ only in one speech sound (e.g. dog vs dig), according…
Lockdowns, job losses, and social isolation have been the hallmarks of 2020 as COVID-19 tightens its grip on the world, not only infecting millions and…
New study presented at TropMed20 shows how climate change could expand and intensify the risk of disease that kills one in five if not treated…
A study conducted by the University of Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health has analyzed the main risk factors in the transmission of…
A global study of ancient dog DNA, led by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, University of Oxford, University of Vienna and archaeologists from more…
Adult, intensively socialized wolves form individualized social bonds with their human handlers. Based on the new study published in Scientific Reports by researchers of the…
Dogs’ personality changes over time, but these changes occur unevenly during the dogs’ life, and each trait follows a distinct age trajectory. Dogs’ personality changes…
Scientists discover striking similarities and differences in how dog and human brains process visual information about others. Researchers of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös…
Numerous animals may be vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a large study modeling how the virus might infect different animals’…
New study has developed robust tests to measure behavior and cognition in aged pet dogs and suggests need for further research into links between aging,…
Owners of bulldogs, French bulldogs, and pugs are highly likely to want to own their breed again in the future, and to recommend their breed…
The finding marks a new effort in conserving an ancient dog breed, with potential to inform human vocalization processes. In a study published in PNAS,…
The study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between us and a speechless species. Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower,…
By mapping molecular changes in the genome over time, UC San Diego researchers developed a formula to more accurately compare dog age to human age…
ASU Canine Science Collaboratory study shows that pet dogs will try to save their distressed human, as long as they know how. What to do….
Cats are twice as likely to survive a venomous snake bite than dogs, and the reasons behind this strange phenomenon have been revealed by University…