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The smell of human stress affects dogs’ emotions – and their decision-making – according to a study conducted by the University of Bristol, Cardiff University, and the British charity Medical Detection Dogs. Their research appears in Scientific Reports.
Next week three animal-rights activists go on trial for sneaking into a beagle-breeding facility in Wisconsin, filming the atrocities therein, and running off with three doggos. That was seven years ago, but now the Dane County district attorney is hauling the three before a judge.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that great apes and chimpanzees can recognize mates they hadn't seen for years — in some cases for more than two decades — evidence of the longest-lasting nonhuman memory ever recorded.
Researchers spent many hours watching and filming domestic cats in a Los Angeles cat cafe, and they determined that the felines can conjure nearly 300 facial expressions. The research is published in the journal Behavioural Processes.
Researchers at Berkeley have been looking into the drinking habits of hummingbirds. Turns out the little birds get a lot of alcohol in their diets, but they tend to moderate their intake.
Since 2018, Elon Musk's medical-device company Neuralink has killed about 1,500 animals – monkeys, pigs, and sheep – in its attempt to develop a brain-computer interface. Now the US Department of Agriculture is investigating the company for possible animal-welfare violations.
Bonobos, like humans and other great apes, spend a long time in childhood dependent on their parents. And like humans, when a baby brother or sister bonobo arrives on the scene, there can be friction.
Japanese researchers have observed a phenomenon that we thought was impossible: a nonhuman animal crying tears of joy. A new study reported in Current Biology this week demonstrated that our canine friends will well up with tears under certain circumstances, and it probably happens more often than we think.
