Dr. Brian Hare's Voyages of Discovery lecture at East Carolina University reminds us that the evolution of dogs is not just a pet story — it is a case study in how friendliness, cooperation, and shared intentionality can reshape a species.
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Some states go far beyond dog-friendly cafés. We ranked the best places in the U.S. to own a dog using unusual data: off-leash acreage per pup, veterinary density, safe-walk scores, pet-friendly employment laws, and the sheer number of professional dog walkers on call.
For the first time, computer vision can track tail carriage, ear position, gaze direction, and gait at thirty frames per second — turning a casual home video into a behavioral dataset richer than anything we could capture with the human eye alone.
The question of whether dogs understand that humans see, know, and want things — distinct from what the dog itself sees, knows, and wants — has moved from speculation to laboratory result.
The microbiome research that has transformed human nutrition science is finally arriving in veterinary medicine — and the implications for behavior are larger than anyone expected.
Episodic-like memory in dogs is real, but it works on a different clock than ours. Understanding the timescales matters more than most training advice suggests.
DHA and EPA show up in every premium kibble marketing deck. The underlying research is more interesting — and more specific — than the packaging suggests.
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods's argument that friendliness — not aggression — drove dog domestication has aged well. Here is the new evidence that has accumulated since the book came out.
Dogs are often referred to as “man’s best friend,” and for good reason. They are loyal, affectionate, and have an uncanny ability to understand us humans in a way that no other animal can. But have you ever wondered how dogs evolved to become our faithful companions? The 60-minute segment “Survival of the Friendliest: How...
If you think your dog is a good judge of character, your canine might be using “social eavesdropping” as a tool to decide who to be nice to and who to ignore. Social eavesdropping in scientific terms is “social evaluation of third-party interactions”…so you know, what us laypeople call “people watching.”
Make no barks about it! Dognition, the science-based assessment that enhances the relationship between dogs and their owners, will be returning to prime time television this spring. This time with Is Your Dog A Genius?, a three-part series on Nat Geo WILD.