Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from wolves. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea ...

The new study states that domestication was a two-way street where humans did not impose themselves on other organisms.

The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...

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This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris) are an important human companion around the world and have long been a focus of archaeological ...

If had I stopped to wonder why they and Canis familiaris as a whole came in so many flavors, I probably would have told myself because we've been breeding them for those flavors for thousands of ...

They identified dogs (Canis familiaris), ancient wolves (Canis lupus), wolfdogs (Canis lupus/familiaris), and coyotes (Canis latrans). "It asks the existential question, what is a dog?" ...

Two types of general enrichment method are discussed, namely animate (i.e. enrichment through the provision of social contacts with conspecifics and humans) and inanimate (i.e. enrichment through the ...

To investigate how DST impacts domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), researchers used motion-sensitive watches to monitor the activity patterns of 25 working sled dogs, 29 pet dogs, and their human ...