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Would Your Dog Give You Treats If He Could?
Getting dogs to share food with you may not be all that easy, new research suggests. In a series of experiments, scientists found that dogs didn’t reciprocate the act of giving food to helpful humans. Though the results may be due to how the experiment was conducted, it could also suggest food-giving just isn’t one…
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Scientists Want Your Cats and Dogs to Volunteer Their Time for Science
Researchers are looking for good boys and girls to volunteer their time and paws for the sake of science. This week, scientists at Hunter College’s Thinking Dog Centre sent out an open call for everyday cats and dogs, as well as their owners, to participate in a citizen science project. The study is intended to…
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Cats Are Just as Disloyal as You Suspected, New Study Suggests
New research points to an important distinction between cats and dogs when it comes to reading certain social cues. It found that cats, unlike dogs, won’t necessarily avoid people who have wronged their owners.
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Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence
The four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary). Time and again, when prompted by researchers to complete a video game task — guiding a cursor with a joystick, a sort of rudimentary Pong…