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Empathetic dogs lend a helping paw

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July 24, 2018
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Many dogs show empathy if their owner is in distress and will also try to help rescue them. This is according to Emily M. Sanford, formerly of Macalester College and now at Johns Hopkins University in the US. She is the lead author of a study in Springer’s journal Learning & Behavior that tested whether […]

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Transmission of NDM bacteria between dogs and humans established

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July 9, 2018
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In 2015, a New Delhi-metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) Escherichia coli bacteria was discovered in two Finnish dogs. An article recently published in the journal Eurosurveillance reveals that the dogs’ owner did also carry the bacterium. This is presumably the first time in the world that the transmission of NDM-bacteria between a dog and a human has been […]

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Kissing bugs kiss their hiding spots goodbye, thanks to tiny radio transmitters

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July 9, 2018
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With the continuing advance of technology, radio tracking devices keep getting smaller and smaller. And that’s bad news for stealthy insects like kissing bugs. In a new pilot study, researchers in Texas successfully attached miniature radio transmitters to kissing bugs and tracked their movements. Kissing bugs, also known as triatomine bugs, are a group of […]

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First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact

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July 5, 2018
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A study reported in the journal Science offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, the […]

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Wolf reintroduction: Yellowstone’s ‘landscape of fear’ not so scary after all

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June 22, 2018
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After wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s, some scientists thought the large predator reestablished a ‘landscape of fear’ that caused elk, the wolf’s main prey, to avoid risky places where wolves killed them. This fueled the emerging idea that predators affect prey populations and ecosystems not only by eating prey animals, […]

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How do horses read human emotional cues?

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June 21, 2018
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Scientists demonstrated for the first time that horses integrate human facial expressions and voice tones to perceive human emotion, regardless of whether the person is familiar or not. Recent studies showed the herd-forming animal possesses high communication capabilities, and can read the emotions of their peers through facial expressions and contact calls, or whinnies. Horses […]

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Dogs understand what’s written all over your face

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June 20, 2018
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Dogs are capable of understanding the emotions behind an expression on a human face. For example, if a dog turns its head to the left, it could be picking up that someone is angry, fearful or happy. If there is a look of surprise on a person’s face, dogs tend to turn their head to […]

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Dogs can detect agricultural diseases early

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June 8, 2018
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A study out of Florida International University evaluates the use of scent-discriminating canines for the detection of laurel wilt-affected wood from avocado trees. Julian Mendel, Kenneth G. Furton, and DeEtta Mills have ferreted out a possible solution to a serious issue in one corner of the horticultural industry, and then ascertained the extent to which […]

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Human encouragement might influence how dogs solve problems

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June 6, 2018
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Human encouragement might influence how dogs solve problems, according to a new Oregon State University study. The study, published in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, sheds light on how people influence animal behavior, said study lead author Lauren Brubaker, a doctoral student in OSU’s Human-Animal Interaction Lab. Brubaker evaluated the behavior of search and […]

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Dogs prefer to eat fat, and cats surprisingly tend toward carbs

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June 5, 2018
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Dogs gravitate toward high-fat food, but cats pounce on carbohydrates with even greater enthusiasm, according to research into the dietary habits of America’s two most popular pets. The study sheds new light on optimal nutrition for the animals and refutes a common notion that cats want and need a protein-heavy regimen. Findings were published this […]

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