- Scientists find dingoes genetically different from domestic dogs after decoding genome. The canine is an intermediary between wolves and domestic dog breeds, research shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/23/scientists-find-dingoes-genetically-different-from-domestic-dogs-after-decoding-genome 364 comments science
- Biden’s domestic terrorism strategy concerns advocates - The White House is worried about white supremacists. But the FBI’s dogged pursuit of Antifa and use of controversial tactics is troubling civil liberties advocates. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/22/biden-domestic-terrorism-strategy-has-activists-in-the-crosshairs-500478 19 comments politics
- Dogs tune into people in ways even human-raised wolves don’t. Researchers have found domestication has reworked dogs’ brains to make the pooches innately drawn to people — and perhaps to intuit human gestures. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-puppy-brain-people-wolves-domestication 30 comments science
- A team of archaeologists in the north-west of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has uncovered the earliest evidence of dog domestication by the region's ancient inhabitants. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/tfg-aue040821.php 4 comments science
- Blue Dogs push for further action on domestic terrorism https://thehill.com/homenews/house/538882-blue-dogs-push-for-further-action-on-domestic-terrorism 54 comments politics
- A new study found that wolf pups will pick up and retrieve balls thrown by humans with whom they are unfamiliar — indicating a willingness to play with people, a trait that could be older than domestic dogs themselves. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/can-wolves-play-fetch-yes-but-researchers-dont-know-why 84 comments science
- Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch. The remarkable ability to interpret human cues that enables a dog to go for a ball and bring it back also exists in wolves. Wolf puppies showing human-directed behavior could have had a selective advantage in early stages of dog domestication. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cp-suw010920.php#.xicq_y0afgk.reddit 576 comments science
- “The Global Impacts Of Domestic Dogs On Wildlife Are Grossly Underestimated,” Researchers Concluded. https://www.sentinelsource.com/news/national_world/in-brazil-dogs-do-more-harm-than-good/article_09f449ef-1545-5284-8037-7f5c210edb55.html 18 comments worldnews
- Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their anatomy. It has now been shown that domestication transformed the facial muscle anatomy of dogs specifically for facial communication with humans. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14677 4 comments science
- Human-raised wolves are just as successful as trained dogs at working with humans to solve cooperative tasks, suggesting that dogs' ability to cooperate with humans came from wolves, not from domestication. https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2019/03/12/wolves_can_cooperate_with_humans_just_as_well_as_dogs.html 1419 comments science
- New Evidence of the Earliest Domestic Dogs in the Americas https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/new-evidence-of-the-earliest-domestic-dogs-in-the-americas/0dbddaad435bbfd7a929f0c2fc7cd365 3 comments science
- What DNA From Pet Foxes Teaches Us About Dogs And Humans | A Soviet-era experiment to breed tame and aggressive foxes has produced surprising revelations about social behavior and domestication. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/fox-dogs-wild-tame-genetics-study-news/ 5 comments europe
- Do we share diseases with dogs or other domesticated animals? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7ugkdx/do_we_share_diseases_with_dogs_or_other/ 9 comments askscience
- How is it that different breeds of Canis lupus familiaris (domesticated dog) can develop to be so different in specific individual populations around the world, yet not be subject to speciation? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6p8pvs/how_is_it_that_different_breeds_of_canis_lupus/ 15 comments askscience
- New research suggests dogs and wolves possess a sense of fairness. Since this behavior is equally strong in wolves and dogs, this sensitivity to inequity is not likely to be an effect of domestication, but a behavior inherited from a common ancestor. http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/infoservice/presseinformation/press-releases-2017/sensitivity-to-inequity-is-in-wolves-and-dogs-blood/http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/infoservice/presseinformation/press-releases-2017/sensitivity-to-inequity-is-in-wolves-and-dogs-blood/ 16 comments science
- Mice rival dogs to be oldest domesticated animal, study finds http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/house-mouse-oldest-domesticated-animal-rivals-dogs-15000-years-jordan-valley-hunter-gatherers-a7652911.html 6 comments science
- Cats are as good as dogs at certain memory tests, suggesting they may be just as smart. A study - involving 49 domestic cats - shows felines can recall memories of pleasant experiences, such as eating a favourite snack. Dogs also show this type of recollection, known as episodic memory. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38665057 14 comments science
- Are domestic dogs a monophyletic group? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5l8cq8/are_domestic_dogs_a_monophyletic_group/ 3 comments askscience
- How do modern day dogs differ from when the animal was first domesticated? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/4rtuap/how_do_modern_day_dogs_differ_from_when_the/ 6 comments history
- Why do dogs like to play fetch? Is this a behavior only found in domesticated dogs? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4mmh3y/why_do_dogs_like_to_play_fetch_is_this_a_behavior/ 23 comments askscience
- Dogs were domesticated not once, but twice… in different parts of the world, research shows http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/1770.html 4 comments science
- Dogs may have been domesticated more than once http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/dogs-may-have-been-domesticated-more-once 31 comments science
- Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/dog-domestication-may-have-increased-harmful-genetic-changes-ucla-biologists-report 9 comments science
- Solving the mystery of dog domestication http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2015/12/feature-solving-mystery-dog-domestication 3 comments science
- Wolves found to be better at problem-solving task than domesticated dogs http://phys.org/news/2015-09-wolves-problem-solving-task-domesticated-dogs.html 264 comments science
- Study shows that while dogs perceive their owners as a safe base, domestic cats do not generally see them as a focus of safety and security in the same way that dogs do. http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/2015/09/1136.asp 10 comments science
- At a high-level meeting earlier this month, scientists argued that "self-domestication" was a key process in human evolution. With our reduced jaws, flat faces, and lower male aggression, humans are to chimps as dogs are to wolves, showing many of the physical traits that emerge during domestication http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/10/how-we-tamed-ourselves-and-became-modern 6 comments science
- PETA has killed 29,426 dogs, cats, rabbits, and other domestic animals. http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=11830 43 comments nottheonion
- Mammoth Kill Sites mark the first signs of Dog Domestication and use in hunting by Early Modern Humans, according to a study published yesterday. http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/05/did-dogs-help-drive-mammoths-their-graves 4 comments science
- Genomes of modern dogs and wolves provide new insights on domestication: Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, before humans transitioned to agricultural societies, study shows http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2014/20140116-domesticated-dogs.html 5 comments science
- Dog virus killing tigers, red pandas and lions in India: Endangered tigers, red pandas and lions are succumbing to infection caused by canine distemper virus (CDV), a disease common in domestic dogs, Indian scientists say http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/dog-virus-killing-tigers-red-pandas-and-lions/articleshow/28417426.cms 20 comments worldnews
- Sheriff's deputy responds to domestic dispute, shoots and kills dog http://www.koco.com/news/oklahomanews/around-oklahoma/woman-wants-answers-after-sheriff-s-deputy-shot-killed-her-dog/-/12530084/15947770/-/mpu2tp/-/index.html 3 comments politics
- Dogs have learn to navigate subways: Moscow subway use by stray dogs "are just one of what are now thousands of recorded examples of wild, feral and domesticated animals demonstrating what appears, at least, to be what humans might call flexible open-ended reasoning and conscious thought." http://abcnews.go.com/international/technology/stray-dogs-master-complex-moscow-subway-system/story?id=10145833#.t-yadswmwsp 10 comments science
- HELP. Austin police officer is called to a domestic distrubance call, shoots barking dog, only to find out he had the WRONG address. No justice has been served. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3422092104928&set=p.3422092104928&type=1 4 comments politics
- Cop shot dead after threatening man's dogs with stun gun - A police officer killed while responding to a domestic disturbance in a small eastern Pennsylvania borough had pointed a stun gun at two dogs before being shot, court records reveal. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025812/police-officer-robert-lasso-shot-dead-pointing-stun-gun-mans-dogs.html#ixzz1v83m5wop 4 comments politics
- TIL that hyenas are evolutionarily closer to cats than dogs, and are in the same suborder as domesticated cats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hyena#appearance_and_biology 4 comments reddit.com
- Cops in Tennessee arrest a guy wanted for a domestic violence charge. He gets out of the car with his hands raised, is attacked by a police dog and then the cops plant drugs on the guy. And they do it with a hand signal seen on video http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/08/tn_cops_plant_drugs_abuse_susp.php 90 comments reddit.com
- Three police shot dead responding to a domestic argument triggered by a urinating dog. I know Reddit hates cops but this is a tragedy for the Pittsburgh PD. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/crime/04/05/pittsburgh.officers.shot.dog/index.html 10 comments reddit.com
- Dawkins: "Nearly half the [American] population [...] believes that the entire universe, the sun and solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy, and all the billions of other galaxies, all began after the domestication of the dog." http://richarddawkins.net/foundation,ourmission 11 comments reddit.com
- An ancient dog skull from Siberia, preserved for 33,000 years, presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and with equally ancient dog remains in Belgium, indicates that domestication of dogs may have occurred repeatedly in different locations http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-dog-skull-dates-years.html 81 comments science