Animals
Ever wondered what your dog is thinking when it eagerly searches for its favorite toy? A study from the Family Dog Project at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest brings us closer to understanding the canine mind. Researchers discovered that dogs create “multi-modal mental images” of familiar objects. This means that dogs remember and think about objects, like their toys, in various sensory dimensions such as appearance and scent. The study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, is a significant step towards understanding the cognitive processes of our canine companions. Previous research...
PsyPost (CA)
Ever wondered what your dog is thinking when it eagerly searches for its favorite toy? A study from the Family Dog Project at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest brings us closer to understanding the canine mind. Researchers discovered that dogs create “multi-modal mental images” of familiar objects. This means that dogs remember and think about objects, like their toys, in various sensory dimensions such as appearance and scent. The study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, is a significant step towards understanding the cognitive processes of our canine companions. Previous research...
PsyPost
Ever wondered what your dog is thinking when it eagerly searches for its favorite toy? A study from the Family Dog Project at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest brings us closer to understanding the canine mind. Researchers discovered that dogs create “multi-modal mental images” of familiar objects. This means that dogs remember and think about objects, like their toys, in various sensory dimensions such as appearance and scent. The study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, is a significant step towards understanding the cognitive processes of our canine companions. Previous research...
PsyPost (UK)
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death. Politicians have long come up with creative ways to battle the rodents, but some lawmakers are now proposing city and statewide measures to do more. In New York City, the idea to distribute rat contraceptives got fresh attention in city government last week following the death of an escaped zoo owl, known as Flaco, who was found dead with rat poison in his system. City Council Member Shaun Abreu p...
Euronews (English)
Firefighters from the Sumy region branch of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service rescued five puppies while they were battling a blaze at a non-residential in the city of Sumy. The puppies escaped the blaze unharmed and were returned to their mother.
Euronews (English)
By Liz Kimbrough Carlos Zorrilla is a leader in what locals say is the longest continuous resistance movement against mining in Latin America. Zorrilla’s family fled from Cuba to the U.S. in 1962 when he was 11 years old. He moved to the Intag Valley in Ecuador in the 1970s, citing his love for the cloud forest ecosystem there. Soon after he arrived, so did the first of the mining companies. Over the following decades, Zorrilla and the organizations he co-founded, including DECOIN (Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag), helped block five transnational mining companies and a national compa...
Mongabay
A lion-tailed macaque has been stolen from the zoo in the eastern German city of Leipzig. Unknown perpetrators broke into the enclosure by force, the Leipzig Zoo announced on Tuesday. The 15-year-old female lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) named Ruma was discovered missing on Easter Sunday during a morning check of the animal enclosure. Her companion, a 12-year-old male macaque, remained in the enclosure and appeared unharmed. In addition to the "clear signs of a violent break-in," the zoo said it was also apparent that the perpetrators had used traps. Leipzig police said that detectives h...
DPA Breaking News
Scientists are scrambling to figure out why smalltooth sawfish, marine creatures that have been around for millions of years, are dying at an alarming rate in Florida waters. The endangered animals are also exhibiting unusual "spinning" and "whirling" behavior, puzzling wildlife officials who are ramping up rescue and rehabilitation efforts, Knewz.com has learned. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries declared an "emergency response" in the Lower Florida Keys on Wednesday, March 27, after state wildlife officials reported the "abnormal fish behavior" as well as t...
Knewz (UK)
Scientists are scrambling to figure out why smalltooth sawfish, marine creatures that have been around for millions of years, are dying at an alarming rate in Florida waters. The endangered animals are also exhibiting unusual "spinning" and "whirling" behavior, puzzling wildlife officials who are ramping up rescue and rehabilitation efforts, Knewz.com has learned. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries declared an "emergency response" in the Lower Florida Keys on Wednesday, March 27, after state wildlife officials reported the "abnormal fish behavior" as well as t...
Knewz (CA)
Hot diggity dog! A dog in Jacksonville, Florida, unearthed an extremely old military bomb. Nearby homes were evacuated before the bomb squad removed the ordnance, Knewz.com has learned. Mathew Sims’ dog, “Baby,” was playing in his backyard on Wednesday, March 27, when she unearthed what Sims called a “metallic object” next to his garage. Sims says when he picked it up, he saw immediately that it was a munition and slowly put it back where he’d found it. He told WJXT-TV after recognizing what it was, “Okay is this live? You panic, then you drop.” He added, “You couldn’t tell what it was until y...
Knewz (CA)
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