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How Do Dogs See in the Dark?
Dogs see roughly five times better than we do in low light. The tapetum lucidum, rod cells and a wider pupil explain how — and why their eyes glow in…
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How Do Dogs Taste Food?
Dogs have a sixth of our taste buds but a receptor for water we do not have. What they can taste, what they cannot, and why smell does most of…
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Can Dogs Predict Storms?
Dogs often know a storm is coming long before we do. Here is what they are actually detecting — pressure, static, infrasound and smell — and why some become so…
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Can Dogs Smell Fear?
The old warning turns out to be roughly true. Research shows dogs detect stress chemicals in human sweat and change their own behaviour in response.
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Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
The wet nose is not a health gauge. Here is what the moisture is actually for, where it comes from, and why a dry nose almost never means what people…
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Why Dogs Roll in Disgusting Things
Fox faeces, dead fish, badger droppings. The behaviour is universal, the theories are competing, and none of them is 'to get clean'.
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How a Dog’s Nose Actually Works
Dogs do not just smell more than us — they smell differently, in stereo, while breathing. Here is what is going on in there, and why sniffing tires them out.
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What Dogs Actually See: Colour, Detail and Motion
Dogs are not colour blind, they see a narrower palette. Which is why the bright orange ball you bought is nearly invisible on grass.