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Pete Wedderburn: Understanding animal behaviour is a challenge

Young animal behaviour is more complicated than just instincts. How do new born puppies know to crawl towards their mother’s mammary glands to suckle milk? How do adult dogs know to sniff under other dogs’ tails to get information about them? How do cats know how to use a scratching post? How do beavers know […]

Understanding Resource Guarding in Dogs (and How to Fix It) (PPiC Ep 8)

Spot the signs of resource guarding in dogs, learn how to keep everyone safe, and the training to do to fix it. The Pawsitive Post in Conversation with Lisa Skavienski of Dog Educated. By Zazie Todd PhD This page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost […]

The importance of non-human primates in neuroscience :: Understanding Animal Research

Owing to their uncanny similarities with human beings, non-human primates (NHPs) have a small but important role in basic and translational biomedical research particularly when it comes to neuroscience. NHPs have delivered fundamental knowledge about how the human brain functions, which has directly led to the development of valuable therapies that have dramatically improved the […]

On the search for a mouse model of ADHD :: Understanding Animal Research

Finding models for psychiatric diseases isn’t an easy feat. Inherently human in nature, psychiatric disorders are collections of different symptoms that come, go and change with age, the environement, and other unknown factors. Modeling an inherently human psychiatric condition in animals Given the subjective nature of many key symptoms, the lack of biomarkers and objective […]

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