April 2007 The range in size seen in dogs is quite extraordinary. This report in Science (subscription needed to get past Abstract) descibes the genetic basis of this variation. You can read a BBC summary here.
Posts Tagged as ‘dogs’
20/04/2009
DOES THE WAY A DOG WAGS ITS TAIL MEAN SOMETHING?
March 2007 Article from Current Biology, reporting a correlation between amplitude of tail wagging and the nature of a visual stimulus (high amplitude – owner, medium – unknown human, and very low -cat). Intriguingly, this effect was always seen on the right hand side of the dog’s body “this pattern of results fits with the general hypothesis that there [...]
