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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Classical conditioning: do try this at home

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In What is classical conditioning? (And why does it matter? ), Jason Goldman asks, “Can you think of other real-world examples of classica...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

The hearty ingredients of Canis soup

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[Reposted from my post on Scientific American’s guest blog. ] The wolf is iconic and charismatic. We see him on t-shirts, on posters, and ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Book review: Control unleashed

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I recently finished Control Unleashed: Creating a focused and confident dog, by Leslie McDevitt. This book is designed for people training ...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

I have become a chef. For owls

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Some days it seems like none of your patients will eat. I asked the intern at the wildlife clinic where I was doing a two week rotation what...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Dogs and babies

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Today I heard this sad story third-hand: as a baby is crawling away from Grandma’s dog, who has always been fine with him before, the dog wi...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The cat in the tree

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The skinny little tree was only about 30 feet tall and growing in the middle of a swamp. Recent flooding had surrounded it with water severa...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Links post

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I haven’t been reading many blogs lately, so these link recommendations are pretty old. Still delicious, though.   Who’s your double merl...
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Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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