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

Dog owners don’t understand their pets’ emotions as well as they think they do. May 26, 2025 Oliver, one of the researcher's dogs, is seen on a black background ...

New research has revealed that people often do not perceive the true meaning of their pet's emotions and can misread their dog. The reasons for this are many and include a human misunderstanding of ...

Life with a dog is a matter of give and take. Especially when it comes to communication. With no common human–dog language, our ability to communicate relies on understanding and reading our pet, and ...

Dogs have spent thousands of years evolving alongside us—and thanks to natural selection and selective breeding, they’ve become pros at reading our emotions. A slight change in our tone, a raised ...

During the past year I've received numerous emails that can be best characterized as requests to "right the wrongs about prevailing myths about dogs and their relationships with us." Among the various ...

As most people know, humans and dogs are the best of friends. Ever since they were first domesticated some 23,000 years ago, dogs have followed us to the ends of the Earth. And while we tend to think ...