Tag Archives: scientific study
Anthropomorphize Much? Depends on Where You Live
Look at your dog. Are you seeing a dog or your child? If you live in the city you are more likely to view your pets as family.
A study entitled “‘I Can’t Be Without a Dog!’ Understanding Variations in Interactions and Relationships with Pets” was conducted at Indiana University South Bend by David Blouin, assistant professor [...]
News Round Up 07/30/10
It’s Friday the 23rd of July and here’s the rest of what’s going on in the animal world…
Talk about your thoughtful kids, this teen was worried about his mom’s reaction after he was bitten by a shark. . . Sometimes I think the scientists that do these studies have never owned dogs – if so, they’d [...]
Dogs Reveal Key to Man’s Lack of Self-Control
At the end of a long day do you cave easily to the lure of delivery pizza, an extra helping of ice cream or maybe a few too many cookies when you’ve promised yourself that you’d cut out the junk food? Do you find that after several hours of working diligently at a mind-bending task [...]
Hope for Tasmanian Devil Population
In the late 1990s a mysterious disease began spreading through the Tasmanian Devil population, killing them off from large tumors on their face and mouths that kept them from being able to eat. Researchers established that the disease, named Devil Facial Tumor Disease, was a highly contagious form of cancer that spread when the Devils [...]
The Ultrasonic Love Songs of Mice
A new study shows that boy mice serenade girl mice with the hopes that their ultrasonic love songs will win over their intended’s tiny hearts.
Huh? What about that old “quiet as a mouse”?
The study’s lead author Kerstin Musolf, a researcher in the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and her [...]
Scientists Find a Test Crows Didn’t Pass with Flying Colors
The New Caledonian crow has made headline news, at least in the animal world, with their stellar results in cognitive test studies. They have been recorded as being capable of getting food through manipulation of their physical world, including leaving nuts where cars will roll over them and then waiting until the traffic light changes to [...]
Asthma, Could Dogs Prevent It From Developing?
It has been traditionally thought that childhood asthma is triggered by pet hair/dander, potentially caused by it. A research team at University of Arizona is challenging that theory with one of their own; early exposure to animals help protect a child from having asthma develop.
The team, headed by Serrine Lau – a professor at the [...]
Bee Hive Collapse Disorder – New Study & Hope
For the last few years we’ve heard nothing but bad news about the fate of the honey bee. Scientists have been at a loss to find a reason for what has become to be known as “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) or “honey bee depopulation syndrome” (HBPS), a mysterious situation where the hives appear to be [...]
Your Dog, Walking Buddy and Furry Fitness Guru
Everyone has heard the expression if your dog is fat then you aren’t getting enough exercise. A study at Cornell University is attempting to determine how true that truism is.
Each test subject, dog and owner, were given pedometers to measure the amount of walking they did. The first look at the data yields that there [...]