What Really Prompts The Dog's 'Guilty Look'
ScienceDaily — What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether their dog had really committed an offense, Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, […]
African Village Dogs Are Genetically Much More Diverse Than Modern Breeds
ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2009) — African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral African village dogs. That means that village dogs from most African regions are genetically distinct from non-native breeds and […]