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Interesting Facts: Where the First Dogs Appeared
The domestic dog is descended from the wolf (Canis lupus), which was one of the first animals domesticated by humans. Initially, wolves came to people for food and received leftovers from them. Thus, they began to live next to people and gradually adapted to the new conditions.
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Interesting Facts: Dogs in Ancient Egypt
It was the dog that was strongly associated with death and funeral life; Often, when a person died, his dog was buried with him.
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Interesting Facts: How Animals React to Human Tears
If the owner is crying, the dog does not run to him with a toy at the ready, but puts his head on his knees and comforts him with a devoted look.
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Interesting Facts: How the Sense of Olfaction Works in Dogs
It is believed that under ideal conditions, dogs can smell scents up to 20 kilometers away. However, this indicator strongly depends on both the smell itself and environmental conditions, such as wind.
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Interesting Facts: Dumbo Rat Breed
Let's dwell on the “breeds” of rats. There are only six of them: standard, rex, satin (satin), sphinx, dumbo and tailless. These rats are the progenitors of all other breeds of decorative rats.
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Interesting Facts: Why Cats Land on Their Feet
Cats have a built-in balancing system called the righting reflex.
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Interesting Facts: How and Why Cats Wash
As an adult, a cat washes itself with its paw after sleeping, going to the toilet, walking down the street, or communicating with a person.
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Interesting Facts: Which Animals Can Remember Words
Dogs are able to quickly, after just four repetitions, remember new words if they are introduced to them in the context of communication and play with their owner. At the same time, the animals retain the words in memory for at least two minutes: this ability was demonstrated by two dogs who had been accustomed to such training since childhood.
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Interesting Facts: How Cats Respond to Their Name
Japanese scientists have found that domestic cats can distinguish their own names from other words that people say, and even the names of other cats that live with them. The researchers, whose work was published in the journal Scientific Reports, used the habituation-withdrawal method, which is often used in experiments with children.
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Interesting Facts: Why Animals Repeat After Humans
In strictly controlled experiments, experts discovered that a Japanese cat named Ebisu imitated the actions of its owner, such as touching a box with its paw or rubbing its head against it.
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Interesting Facts: Which Animals See themselves in the Mirror
Diana Reiss, a cognitive psychologist and marine mammal specialist at Hunter College, has conducted experiments on both dolphins and elephants and believes that both show signs of self-recognition in mirrors.
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Interesting Facts: Why Cats Like Catnip
Cats love to rub and roll in the leaves of catnip (Nepeta cataria), and actinidia polygama, or matatabi, which grows in Japan, China, Korea, and the Russian Far East, causes a similar reaction. Much of this feline behavior is due to the fact that the plant contains iridoids, which help repel mosquitoes and other insects.
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Interesting Facts: How a Dog's Brain is Different from a Human's
It turned out that the brains of pets, like the brains of children, react more strongly to speech directed specifically at them: in such cases, a person changes his intonation: his voice becomes higher, the range of tones becomes wider, and phrases become shorter. In addition, the dogs were better able to perceive female speech addressed to them or children. The work was published in Communications Biology.
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Important to Know: How to Monitor Your Dog's Health
Finnish researchers have concluded that a diet based on unprocessed meat-dominated foods, unconsumed human food scraps and table scraps during puppyhood and adolescence reduces the likelihood of a dog developing chronic enteropathy in later life. A publication about this appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Interesting Facts: How Pets React to Music
As it turned out, music “inspired” by soothing sounds allows animals not only to relax, but also increases their appetite, and sounds similar to those that animals make when experiencing fear make them agitated.
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Good to Know: How to Train Puppies
Training dogs using aversive stimuli, which involve punishment for misbehavior, shows higher levels of stress compared to dogs trained using reward methods, according to a study published Dec. 16 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Ana Catarina.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs' Vision Works
Even though dogs make eye contact with humans, the canine brain may not recognize faces the way the human brain does. A new study published in JNeurosci suggests that the dog's visual system is organized differently than that found in primates.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Have Changed in 100 Years
New research shows that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people found sad-eyed puppies more attractive. This, in turn, contributed to the development of the facial muscle in dogs, which is responsible for such a “facial” expression.
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Good to Know: Which Dog Breeds Are Suitable for Children
Oregon State University researchers are conducting more research to better understand the factors that contribute to differences in levels of synchronization and other aspects of bond quality between dogs and children compared to dogs and adults, including participation in animal-assisted interventions and increased child responsibility for caring for the dog.
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Interesting Facts: How Animals Affect Human Life
According to the work, published in the journal Animals, which is the first to combine data from multiple species - cats and dogs - from the same people.
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