Despite the good care, a shelter can be a stressful environment for dogs. Researchers at Utrecht University investigated if the amount of the hormone cortisol in hair indicates the levels of stress that dogs experience before, ...
Veterinary medicine
Apr 21, 2022
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Female chimpanzees are less likely than males to go near villages and farmland used by humans, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2022
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Dogs are deeply affected by the deaths of canine companions, eating and playing less and seeking attention more following a loss, a large scientific study said Thursday.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2022
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Behavioral and emotional changes exhibited by dogs after the death of another dog in the same household could be indicative of grief, according to a survey of 426 Italian dog-owners published in Scientific Reports.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2022
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A scientific team from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB) and the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (Leibniz-FMP) discovered a previously ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2022
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Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows.
Ecology
Dec 14, 2021
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New research has shed light on how an understanding of human emotions by man's best friend can help them predict our behavior and informs their decision making.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2021
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A coordinated and sustained program of dog vaccination is essential for preventing rabies spread to humans and animals, according to new research.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 1, 2021
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Together with a European team, Senckenberg scientists have presented a new method in the scientific journal BMC Genomics that allows the reliable identification of wolf-dog hybrids on the basis of environmental samples such ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2021
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Domestic dogs show many adaptations to living closely with humans, but they do not seem to reciprocate food-giving according to a study, publishing July 14 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, led by Jim McGetrick and colleagues ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2021
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