• 美国首次为军犬建立国家纪念碑

    13-11-03 The newly unveiled U.S. Military Working Dog Teams National Monument is seen at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in San Antonio, Texas October 28, 2013. 为表彰军犬在战时所做的牺牲与贡献,10月28日,美国军方为这些和军人一起出生入死的挚友竖立的首座国家...

  • 狗尾巴左右摇摆表达的意义不同

    13-11-01 You might think a wagging(摇动的) tail is a wagging tail, but for dogs there is more to it than that. Dogs recognize and respond differently when their fellow canines wag to the right than they do when they wag to the left. The findings reported i...

  • 狗主人打呵欠对狗比陌生人更具传染性

    13-08-08 Dogs yawn(打呵欠) contagiously when they see a person yawning, and respond more frequently to their owner's yawns than to a stranger's, according to research published August 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Teresa Romero and colleagues fr...

  • 狗可以学习重复人们教的动作

    13-07-17 Dogs can learn, retain and replay actions taught by humans after a short delay. According to a new study by Claudia Fugazza and Adm Miklsi, from Etvs Lornd University in Hungary, this deferred imitation provides the first evidence of dogs' cognitive...

  • 养狗的家庭内有更多的细菌

    13-05-23 New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado shows that households with dogs are home to more types of bacteria - including bacteria that are rarely found in households that do not have dogs. The finding is part o...

  • 绝育过的狗寿命更长

    13-04-18 Many dog owners have their pets spayed or neutered(中性的) to help control the pet population, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests the procedure could add to the length of their lives and alter the risk of specific causes of d...

  • The Crumbs on the Table

    13-03-27 A countryman one day said to his little puppies, Come into the parlour(客厅) and enjoy yourselves, and pick up the bread-crumbs on the table; your mistress has gone out to pay some visits. Then the little dogs said, No, no, we will not go. If the...

  • 狗联词定物的能力与人类相异

    12-11-23 Dogs learning to associate words with objects form these associations in different ways than humans do, according to research published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Emile van der Zee and colleagues from the University of Lincol...

  • 侦探犬被用于寻找花斑猫头鹰

    12-08-16 A series of forest searches by dogs specially trained to sniff out northern spotted owl pellets(芯块,小球) -- the undigested bones, fur and other bits regurgitated(反刍) by owls -- improved the probability of finding the owls by nearly 30 perce...

  • The Perfect Dog

    12-08-07 During summer vacations, I would volunteer at the vet's, so I'd seen a lot of dogs. Minnie was by far the funniest-looking dog I'd ever seen. Thin curly hair barely covered her sausage-shaped body. Her bugged-out eyes always seemed surprised. And he...