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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Memory Works
Research into canine memory continues, including at the Duke Center for Cognitive Research at Duke University
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Aggression in Dogs: What are the Causes
Researchers from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) studied why some dogs are more aggressive than others. Alternatively, in scientific terms, they described correlations between aggressiveness and morphological, environmental and social factors, reports phys.org.
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Interesting Facts: How a Man Shapes a Dog's Personality
Just like a person, a dog's personality can change over time, according to experts from Michigan State University. The study was published in the Journal of Research in Personality.
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Interesting Facts: How Animals Feel Human Mood
Scientists say that animals establish a telepathic connection with humans and therefore willingly offer a helping hand when they sense something is wrong.
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Interesting Facts: How Cats Are Different from Other Animals
Scientists from the University of California at Davis have determined that cats, unlike most other animals, prefer not to work for food if possible.
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Interesting Facts: What Complex Emotions Animals Can Experience
The study's findings suggest that feelings similar to regret can influence the behavior and decisions made by rodents, and challenge the assumption that regret is a feeling unique to humans.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Communicate with People Using Body Language
Dogs use facial expressions to communicate with their owners. This conclusion was reached by researchers at the University of Portsmouth in England. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Remember Words
The study found that dogs use the left hemisphere of their brain to process the meaning of words and the right hemisphere to judge intonation, The Telegraph reports.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Understand Human Speech
Published in the scientific journal NeuroImage, the work showed that the dog’s brain can recognize both speech in the dog’s familiar language and in an unknown one.
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Interesting Facts: History of the Origin of Dogs
Scientists have found that 11 thousand years ago, five different genetic types of dogs already existed in different parts of the world. The work was published in the journal Science.
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Interesting Facts: How Dogs Perceive Their Owners
A study by Austrian scientists confirmed that the relationships between dogs and their owners are similar to those of children and parents.
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Important to Know: How Life on the Street Affects Animals
Psychologists from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA) studied how strong the bond is between a dog rescued from adverse conditions and its new owner by assessing behavioral and physiological responses under stress. The results of the study were published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
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Interesting Facts: What Affects the Character of Dogs
A team of Finnish scientists from the University of Helsinki, Folkhälsan Research Center and the University of Turku have identified factors associated with basic personality traits in dogs. The results of the study were published in the journal iScience.
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Interesting Facts: Why Cats Are Aggressive
Scientists from Liverpool John Moores University have found that almost all domestic cats show signs of psychopathy. The results of the study were published on ScienceDirect.
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Interesting Facts: What Abilities Do Cats Have
According to a study published in Psychology Today, Cats have more nerve cells in the visual areas of the brain, part of the cerebral cortex (the area of the brain involved in decision making, problem solving, planning, memory and language processing) than humans and most other mammals.
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Interesting Facts: How Animals Imitate Humans
Researchers from the United States have shown that cats, under certain conditions, can imitate people. However, ethologists were skeptical about this experiment - according to them, this behavior could not be innate, but trained.
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Interesting Facts: Why Cats Are More Independent Than Dogs
It appears that what we called separation anxiety may simply be frustration,” says Professor Daniel Mills, author of the study, published in the journal Plos One.
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Interesting Facts: What Emotions Pets Can Experience
In March 2022, the scientific journal Affective Science published the results of a study conducted by Dutch scientists from Leiden and Utrecht universities. In the course of their work, they discovered the ability of animals to experience emotions. However, the answer to the question to what extent the feelings of animals and birds are similar to humans remains a matter of debate.
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Important to Know: Why a Cat May Follow its Owner
As it turned out, in order to know where the owner is, the cat does not even need to see him, since he retains a mental image of his loved one. This was confirmed by experiments by Japanese scientists from Kyoto University, whose research was published in the journal PLOS One.
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Fish: What is Important to Know About Care
An aquarium is a good way to liven up your interior. Large aquariums with exotic fish decorate reception areas and offices. Observing the leisurely life of the inhabitants of the underwater world allows you to escape from worries and regain strength for work. A quarter of an hour in front of the aquarium will relieve tension and an attack of blues.
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