Environment
Dog waste may harm nature reserve biodiversity by fertilising the soil
Dogs’ urine and faeces bring large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into suburban nature reserves, which could be harmful to plant biodiversity
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Life
Pet dogs respond to an average of 89 distinct words or phrases
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Life
Feeding pet dogs just once a day might keep them healthier as they age
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Dogs may get worse separation anxiety when left alone with another dog
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Dogs can pick out individual words when we speak to them
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Extinct Japanese wolf is the closest wild relative of dogs yet found
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Humans
Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends
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Life
Gifted dogs can learn 12 words in a week and remember them for months
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Cavalier King Charles spaniels carry a high number of harmful genes
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Humans
Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became omnivores
Gut microbes helped ancient dogs eat starch-rich food when farming led to a change in diet for people and their animals, an analysis of 3500-year-old dog faeces reveals
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Humans
Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild hunting dogs
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Life
What would become of dogs without humans? Here’s how they’d evolve
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Dogs will ignore you if they know you are lying, unlike young children
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Your dog may not like you as much as you think it does
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