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Does your dog understand when you talk to them? Yes, according to some owners. And that's what researchers think too. A recent study carried out in Hungary revealed that, apart from commands, man's best friend can understand words representing objects. In their study, researchers used electrodes to analyse what was going on in their brains. "We thought that if the dogs really understood the meaning of the word, the name of the object, they would expect to see that object. And that if the owner showed them another object, there would be a surprise reaction in the brain. And that's exactly what ...
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By Issam AHMED Washington (AFP) - Nos chiens peuvent-ils comprendre les mots que nous employons? Une nouvelle étude sur les ondes cérébrales, publiée vendredi dans Current Biology, suggère que le fait d'entendre le nom de leurs jouets préférés active chez eux la mémoire des objets auxquels ils sont associés. "Cela nous montre que ce n'est pas une faculté simplement humaine", se réjouit la co-autrice de l'enquête Lilla Magyari, chercheuse à l'université Loránd-Eötvös en Hongrie. La question de savoir si les chiens comprennent les mots ou une situation, tels que le ton employé ou un contexte par...
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Washington (AFP) - Whether dogs truly understand the words we say -- as opposed to things like tone and context clues -- is a question that has long perplexed owners, and so far science hasn't been able to deliver clear answers. But a new brain wave study published Friday in Current Biology suggests that hearing the names of their favorite toys actually activates dogs' memories of those objects. "It definitely shows us that it's not human-unique to have this type of referential understanding," first author Lilla Magyari of the Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary, told AFP, explaining that res...
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Should we switch from calling a dog man’s best friend and instead call it man’s best therapist? While canines are already used in hospitals and schools to alleviate stress, new research shows what happens in the brain when humans interact with a dog. A team from Konkuk University in South Korea investigated the effects of people engaging in several activities with a dog by using an electroencephalogram (EEG), a test used to measure electrical activity in the brain using electrodes, on 30 adults. Researchers had participants interact with a 4-year-old standard poodle “fully trained in basic obe...
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Scooped up off the streets, vaccinated, sterilised and then released into familiar surroundings. This was the method the Ananda shelter, the largest in Russia's eastern Buryatia region, had established for dealing with its stray dog problem, under previous rules. Each day some 30 stray dogs are caught in the regional capital, Ulan-Ude. But now the rules have changed. These dogs may now be euthanised if their owners cannot be located within a month. Bristol animal rescue shelter tackles funding crisis with auction of art made by dogs At the end of 2023, several Russian regions allowed the killi...
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A 14-year-old rescue dog was stabbed to death in New York City’s Central Park over the weekend. Owners Brian and his wife Melanie were taking their dogs, Eli, a German Shepherd pitbull mix, and Sadie, a 17-year-old miniature pinscher, out for a walk on Saturday night when Brian got into an argument with a man who had three unleashed pitbull terriers. Brian told the New York Post that the dispute began when he told the killer that letting his dog try to bite Brian’s dog was not acceptable. “And then he just wanted to be a tough guy and he started trying to talk to me like he’s my dad,” Brian s...
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Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo and the world’s oldest dog, has turned 31. Born on May 11, 1992, in the rural village of Conqueiros, Portugal, Bobi was not supposed to live. Bobi’s owner, Leonel Costa, was only eight years old when Bobi was born and at the time of Bobi’s birth, Costa and his family already owned too many animals. “Unfortunately, at that time it was considered normal by older people who could not have more animals at home to bury the animals in a hole so that they would not survive,” Costa told Guinness World Records. IN MEMORIAM 2022: 100 GREAT CELEBRITIES WHO DIED IN 20...
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By Rejimon Kuttappan Last month, CCTV visuals of a stray dog attacking a 12-year-old in Arakkinar in Kozhikode district went viral. Nooras was taken to the hospital and is recovering at home now. It shocked many, but not quite the residents of Kerala. Just a day before the incident, five persons including two children were attacked by a pack of stray dogs in the village. On September 5, a 12-year-old girl died weeks after being bitten by a stray dog, despite having taken three doses of the anti-rabies vaccine. Kerala is no stranger to brutal attacks of stray dogs that sometimes have led to dea...
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Tarrytown (United States) (AFP) - The Westminster Dog Show crowned a Pekingese named Wasabi its "Best in Show" Sunday, in the culmination of a reworked pandemic edition of the competition missing its usual pooch-loving crowds. Normally held in February, the show was delayed and moved from its home in the heart of New York City to a country estate due to Covid-19. Spectators were kept away and it was the show's first time being held outside Manhattan, but the singular passion of the event, now in its 145th year, was unchanged: dogs. Three-year-old Wasabi was crowned best in show from a pack of...
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Washington (AFP) - When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, Professor Gregory Gray at Duke University's Global Health Institute tasked a graduate student at his lab with developing a pan-species coronavirus test in order to help prevent the next catastrophe. The idea was to deploy the tool, once its accuracy was validated, to look back at test samples from human patients in order to search for signs of coronaviruses that might have begun to cross over from animals. Gray and his colleague's findings, released Thursday in Clinical Infectious Diseases, showed a canine coronavirus was present in a group...
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