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Ethology

A very smart dog, doing calculus

Study Reveals Dogs Can Imitate Human Actions from Video Projections

baby chick

Male Chicks Play More Than Females, Hinting at Evolutionary Benefits of Play

The researchers of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, investigated whether young puppies, kittens and wolf pups have different tendencies to observe and imitate what a person did, without any pre-training and food reward.

Dog puppies spontaneously match human actions, while kittens, wolf pups not so much

Woman playing with a pig and holding an apple

Dogs show things to humans but pigs do not

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