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For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to herding and companionship. This deliberate shaping of traits has resulted in ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Research offers insights into domestication of dogs but it remains unclear why they ended up with smaller brains than wolves ...

HAMBURG — You can’t help but feel a bit sorry for dogs. Just look at what they have to put up with via the German language. Bad weather? Hundewetter, “dog weather.” Exhausted? Dog-tired. Down on your ...

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Evolution and classification of Canids -- Comparative aspects of behaviour in Canids -- The behaviour and functions of submission -- A pack of wolves -- Social ...