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Still man’s best friend: pet wolves can’t understand us like dogs


Wolves raised by humans did not bond with them as well as dogs, a study foundYour labradoodle might not be able to navigate the steppes of Siberia. Your chihuahua might not be able to organise a pack hunt to take down a mighty elk. But that doesn’t mean domestic dogs are stupid — they just have a different skill set from the wolves from which they are descended. The study, carried out at the Wildlife Science Center in Stacy, Minnesota, and published in the journal Current Biology, involved 44 puppies and 37 wolf cubs. The wolf puppies were raised


Source: The Times July 12, 2021 16:04 UTC



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