Scientists aren’t entirely sure how wolves evolved into dogs, but new research into the genetic and social behavior of wolf pups may offer some clues.CreditCredit...Renaud Philippe for The New York Times NICOLET, Quebec — I’m sitting in an outdoor pen with four puppies chewing my fingers, biting my hat and hair, peeing all over me in their excitement. At eight weeks old, they are two feet from nos
Wil, an Australian shepherd, waited to have his brain scanned in a magnetic resonance imaging machine, part of an experiment by Dr. Gregory Berns. Wil’s head is wrapped with medical gauze to hold in ear-plugs that muffle the noise.Credit...Dustin Chambers for The New York Times Dr. Gregory Berns, 53, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, spends his days scanning the brains of dogs, tryi
Dr. Horowitz, a professor of cognitive science who runs the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, with Finnegan at Riverside Park in Manhattan.Credit...Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times Dogs sniff, humans sniff, what’s the difference? “There are many ways to sniff, and the human method is not the best,” Dr. Horowitz said. Sniff researchers (yes, you read that correctly) have found we have abou
Who’s a good dog? Well, that depends on whom you’re asking, of course. But new research suggests that the next time you look at your pup, whether Maltese or mastiff, you might want to choose your words carefully. “Both what we say and how we say it matters to dogs,” said Attila Andics, a research fellow at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. Dr. Andics, who studies language and behavior in dogs
MONTAGUE, Mass. — Think of all the dogs out there: labradors and poodles and labradoodles; huskies and westies and dogues de Bordeaux; pit bulls and spaniels and lovable mutts that go to doggy day care. Add them up, all the pet dogs on the planet, and you get about 250 million. But there are about a billion dogs on Earth, according to some estimates. The other 750 million don’t have flea collars.
An ancient canine skull at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Scientists are still debating exactly when and where the ancient human-canine bond originated.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times OXFORD, England — Before humans milked cows, herded goats or raised hogs, before they invented agriculture, or written language, before they had permanent homes, and most certainly befo
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