We know that some animals, like dogs and apes, can laugh. Can an animal also have a sense of humor? Join Anthony as he discusses how Koko the Gorilla and some other animals show promising signs ...
http://news.discovery.com/animals/do-animals-have-a-sense-of-humor-vid
Attention varies with age in both dogs and humans. Recent research shows that just like in humans, attention is best in young adult to early middle-aged dogs. Findings also indicate that adolescent dogs, although less efficient at sustaining attention, have the fastest learning rate.read mor ...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201404/how-does-dogs
Huge herd of elk crossing the road in Bozeman, Montana near Yellowstone. Wait for the young elk at the endThis is a great video. Local resident Austin Stonnell records a herd of elk crossing the road in Bozeman, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The North American elk, while one of the most common land mammals, does not usually gather in groups this large when traveling.One of the elk just couldn’t jump the fence. It tried and tried, and ...
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/04/massive-herd-of-elk-in-montana-ne
This is pretty awesome. Of course, it’s fun to watch dogs driving cars, but it’s also cool because the purpose of this dog driving course, conducted by a charity in New Zealand, is to get more people comfortable with the idea that rescue dogs are intelligent, can be trained, and are worthy of adoption. I am sure this must have helped a bit to increase adoptions.Via Tesla MotorsDogs Learn To Drive Cars, Really (VIDEO) was originally posted on ...
http://planetsave.com/2014/04/03/dogs-learn-drive-cars-really-video
Dogs are known to be Man's best friend. No other pet has adjusted to Man's lifestyle as this four-legged animal. Scientists at the Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna, have been the first to investigate the evolution of dogs' attentiveness in the course of their lives and to what extent they resemble Man in this regard. The outcome: dogs' attentional and sensorimotor control developmental trajectories are very similar to those fou ...
(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers, one with the University of Alaska, the other with Independent, Auke Bay are suggesting in a paper they've had printed in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that global warming is partially responsible for large increases in pink salmon populations in North America and Asia. Alan Springer and Gus van Vliet claim that rising ocean temperatures are at least partly to blame for increased pink salmon po ...
Why zebras have black and white stripes is a question that has intrigued scientists and spectators for centuries. A research team led by the University of California, Davis, has now examined this riddle systematically. Their answer is published April 1 in the online journal Nature Communications ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-scientists-riddle-zebras-stripes.htm
As the climate continues to change, it's unclear to what extent different species will be able to keep pace with altered temperatures and shifted seasons. Living organisms are the survivors of previous environmental changes and might therefore be expected to adapt, but are there limits ...
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-roe-deer-persist-climate-disaster.htm
Meet the 10 most endangered dog breeds in BritainFor more information on breeds and breeders, contact thekennelclub.org.u ...
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/mar/30/dogs-cruft
Brandon Ballengée is really into frogs and amphibians. His interest isn't like ours -- common folk that used to stumble upon them in ponds as a kid and thought they were cute -- but to the extent where this artist-biologist-environmental activist has made them his life's work. Ballengée, whose research focuses on population declines and causes of deformities in amphibians, has been collecting these tiny critters from all over the world for more t ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/frog-deformities-photos_n_504
In what can be termed as a perfect case of gender-bender among fish, biologists have found evidence of "feminisation" of male fish in the estuaries in the Basque coast of Spain. ...
http://da.feedsportal.com/c/33039/f/533925/s/38c88b56/l/0Ltimesofindia
Alligators can accurately pinpoint the source of sounds. But it wasn't clear exactly how they did it because they lack external auditory structures. A new study shows that the alligator's ear is strongly directional because of large, air-filled channels connecting the two middle ears. This configuration is similar in birds, which have an interaural canal that increases directionality ...
Goats learn how to solve complicated tasks quickly and can recall how to perform them for at least 10 months, which might explain their remarkable ability to adapt to harsh environments, say researchers. The goats' ability to remember the task was tested after one month and again at 10 months. They learned the task within 12 trials and took less than two minutes to remember the challenge ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140326092629.ht
This video shows the dynamics of the Exhibit as yearlings begin maturing into adults. Aidan has a very definitive response to Boltz's testing behavior. The video also shows the effects of old age on the retirees as Shadow struggles to hit the high pitched rally howls.Ritual dominance behavior among wolves can be very intense, but rarely results in injuries to the animals. Like a family, the Wolf pack is a social unit. The pack consists of the bre ...
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/03/amazing-video-shows-ritual-domina
Zookeepers are hand-rearing this amazingly cute sloth bear cub. They're doing it because the cub's mom Khali ate the baby girl's two siblings.The three cubs were born at the National Zoo on Dec. 29, 2013. The first cub was "ingested," as the zoo put it in a news release, about 20 minutes after being born -- which was not, evidently, especially alarming since "it is not uncommon" for sloth bears and other carnivores "to ingest stillborn cubs, or e ...
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/03/baby-sloth-bear-is-being-raised-b
This is hilarious. Not much more to say. Just watch:Dogs Freak Out When They Get Pranked By Magic Trick was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage ...
http://planetsave.com/2014/03/22/dogs-freak-get-pranked-magic-trick
As some countries and companies roll out new rules to limit animal testing in pharmaceutical products designed for people, scientists are stepping in with a new way to test therapeutic drug candidates and determine drug safety and drug interactions -- without using animals. The development of "chemosynthetic livers" could dramatically alter how drugs are made ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140318113626.ht
California sea lions exposed to a toxin in algae develop a form of epilepsy that is similar to one in humans, according to a new study. Every year, hundreds of sea lions wash up along the California coast, suffering seizures caused by exposure to domoic acid, a neurotoxin that can produce memory loss, tremors, convulsions and death. Domoic acid is produced by algae blooms that have been proliferating along the coast in recent years, accumulating ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140318113725.ht
Evolutionary and developmental biologists have discovered that sea anemones display a genomic landscape with a complexity of regulatory elements similar to that of fruit flies or other animal model systems. This suggests that this principle of gene regulation is already 600 million years old and dates back to the common ancestor of human, fly and sea anemone ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140318113816.ht
Hungry dogs would be expected to choose alternatives leading to more food rather than less food. But just as with humans and monkeys, they sometimes show a 'less is more' effect. Thus conclude scientists who tested the principle by feeding baby carrots and string cheese to 10 dogs of various breeds ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140319153156.ht
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