Posted by Best Friend on June 12th, 2008 in dog SOCIETY
Dogs, however, can only bark their disapproval of the mate their owner has chosen for them and a not-so-savvy pet-keeper may never understand that canine Cleopatra finds top-dog Caesar a bore and would much rather step out with someone less pompous!
A dotcom for mating dogs
Economic Times, India
The Walt Disney movie The Lady and […]
Posted by Best Friend on March 3rd, 2008 in dog SCIENCE
Is barking a by-product of domestication, a human developed trait or the evolution of a new language? Someone wrote some software (artificial neural network:) to identify what, why or how a dog is barking. Are dogs really saying something specific or do they just like to hear themselves talk?
abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4149842&page=2
Posted by Best Friend on March 3rd, 2008 in dog SCIENCE
Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do. And the dogs successfully demonstrate their learning through […]