Animal Behaviour

Jan 6, 2025 | inkl.com | Aoife Byrne |Animal Behaviour

Dogs have lived alongside humans for thousands of years. They have been used to hunt, guard, herd and perform many other tasks, but today they mainly act as companions. While their lives today may seem easy compared with their ancestors, they still face many stresses – including visits to the vet. A couple of years ago, researchers in France showed that how a dog owner behaves at the vet affects their pet’s stress levels.

Jun 20, 2023 | link.springer.com | Animal Behaviour

AbstractThe ability to discriminate between different individuals based on identity cues, which is important to support the social behaviour of many animal species, has mostly been investigated in conspecific contexts. A rare example of individual heterospecific discrimination is found in domestic dogs, who are capable of recognising their owners’ voices.

Feb 3, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Animal Behaviour |George Thomas

Joana Coelho1, 2, Joana Domingues1, 2, Helga Waap1, 2, 3 and George T.