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We’re working with professional trainers in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to train dogs to sniff out COVID-19. They could be highly valuable in managing the spread of infection.
Moss is part of an elite squad of detection dogs that will locate threatened species in the wild and help endangered species breed in captivity.
Your faithful friend’s view of the world is different than yours, but maybe not in the way you imagine.
Flat-faced dogs had twice the odds of suffering heatstroke compared with a labrador retriever.
Imagine being able to detect a smell from more than a kilometre away. Dogs can sniff out things from a greater distance than that.
Roaming pet cats kill 390 million animals per year in Australia. But keeping cats inside (or contained outside) 24/7 can actually be in their best interest.
Dogs can behave like teenagers too. But it’s just a passing phase – and the quality of the dog-owner relationship matters.
Research shows that looking at your dog makes you feel happy.
Are the best co-workers really the ones with four legs and a tail? Science says it depends.
Pets might not protect us from the coronavirus, but they can help us get better.
Both cats and dogs can become infected with the coronavirus. The chances of them getting sick or passing it on to you or another animal are extremely low.
Just like their owners, many pet dogs are finding the current changes difficult – here’s how you can help them.
For puppies, looking at objects is the next best thing to touching them, and they can learn about their environment through short excursions to see traffic, pedestrians and other dogs.
For dogs, grooming can mean dousing in water, restraint, manipulation of the body, and touching of taboo areas by unfamiliar people.
Researchers expected to find koalas killed by the fires. But they were heartbroken to find those that died afterwards from starvation, thirst or injury.
Can your canine give you coronavirus?
A closer look at Canada’s hit TV show, ‘Hudson & Rex’, invites us to think differently about animals’ minds, work and contributions to our shared communities.
A dog psychologist looks at the presidential candidates’ relationships with dogs.
Trained service dogs are fundamentally different from emotional support animals – and certification could make sure the public understands the difference.
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
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Professor of Animal Behaviour and Welfare, University of New England
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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Fellow, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Scotland's Rural College
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Richard Malik is a Friend of The Conversation.
Veterinary Internist (Specialist), University of Sydney
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Professor, Management and Organizational Studies, Huron University College, Western University
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Veterinarian and PhD scholar, University of Sydney
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Animal Geographer, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Veterinary Education, Royal Veterinary College
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Reader, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast
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