Dogs may love their whole family, but let's be honest, many of them still have a favorite person. That one human they follow ...

From "pillowing" to the classic lean, canine behavioral experts reveal the specific nighttime rituals that signal a profound emotional bond between dogs and their owners ...

Julia B. Linares-Roake explores how people navigate the muddiness of living with dogs from their point of view as we over-control how they play and express their "dogness." ...

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Research reveals that some prairie dog alarm calls encode remarkably specific information about humans and other predators.

Dogs have a special chemistry with humans that goes back many tens of thousands of years. Researchers investigated this special evolutionary relationship from a number of different angles. Their ...

Unseen but all around us, the air we breathe in enclosed spaces is crucial to our health and well-being. Indoor air is not simply outdoor air that has been run through a filter: it has its own ...

According to a new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour, that difference may not be your imagination. Researchers ...

Why does your dog rush to "help" when you are searching for something, while your cat seems… eh, less concerned? New research suggests that this difference may stem from deep evolutionary roots—and ...

If you’re one of the many Massachusetts residents sick with the flu right now, you may be distancing yourself from others to prevent the spread. But there is at least one close relation you don’t need ...