Off-leash dogs can increase chance of human-bear conflicts, study says

A viral video featuring an off-leash dog in Banff National Park earlier this summer combined with new research is highlighting the importance of keeping dogs leashed while in bear country.

Brain regions linked to higher cognitive functions and reward processing were activated only by images of happy strangers

BERLIN, Aug 11 : A peek inside dogs' brains revealed man's best friend can distinguish emotions in people's faces, researchers at the University of Vienna have found, providing what they said was the first ever evidence of such an ability. In the study, researchers used machine learning to analyse brain scans of 12 dog

A dog watching its owner smile may be doing much more than simply looking at a familiar face. Inside its brain, that smile appears to trigger a distinct response, one that researchers can tell apart from the reactions produced by anger, fear or sadness.   Scientists have long known that dogs are unusually good at […] T