Too often, it is difficult to know what is reliable information and what’s junk. If you read this blog with any regularity then you know I strongly emphasize the importance of going to the primary source because there is a lot of bad, bad, bad stuff out there. While it’s easy to dismiss a one-off…
The SPARCS conference was a unique opportunity for people to hear directly from researchers; not restrained by an interviewer, the PIs were able to present their research in whatever way they felt was important. Researchers don’t often get to talk directly to the public and I can’t think of a case where such a distinguished…
There is a new peer-review, open access journal focusing on all things related to canine genetics and epidemiology. Over this blog’s history I’ve had to mine everything from Journal of Nucleic Acid research to the Journal of Biophysical Chemistry, not publications one thinks of when the subject of behavior or health pop to mind. I think it’s…
We all know things that we can’t properly attribute; a bit of trivia, celebrity gossip, the best bakery in town, and yet we can’t remember who told us these things. It is possible to remember the name to a great new restaurant but not who first told you about it. Source memory was thought to…
An interesting paper published in the journal Ethology on puppy nursing behavior. The abstract does such a good job of summarizing the findings that I’m just going to present it as is. I’ll point out to pay special attention to the lack of preference and agonistic behavior.(ie no fighting for nipple). Cesar Millan has claimed…
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