Who Let The Dogs Out?

I took to X this week to share more about my scicomm article, or what it is based off! The studies are very interesting to me, so it was exciting to be able to explain why their results are important to understanding dog cognition. As a preview, I attached an image of one of my three tweets this week. It explains the significance of the findings from my primary research article conducted by Giulia Cimarelli. I attempted to simplify these results so the typical dog-lover would not only understand the takeaway but also why we should care. We take great notice of how we interact and behave with our pet pups, and this care should be given to our free-ranging friends! It's two short sentences, but they carry a lot of weight.

In addition to these tweets, I spent more time this week perusing through hashtags and new accounts. When I first started X, I thought I would run out of scientists to follow. I now know this is not possible! I found and followed Eniko Kubinyi, Alan McElligott, and Dr. Kerri Rodriguez, professors and dog researchers. Each of these accounts has a focus on dogs but also shares recent discoveries around animal cognition. I also looked over the latest and top posts of the hashtags #smartdog, #animalcognition, and #animalwelfare. I was able to watch a crazy video of a chimpanzee completing a memory test. Trying to follow along, the chimp did even better than me! The #smartdog was the most productive for me in finding new videos around dogs' abilities.

My last endeavor on social media this week was on Noah Agocs's blog post from this week. He is looking into wolves and talked about them being able to respond to human cues, a very similar finding in stray dogs that I shared onn X this week! It's very interesting to realize how similar these species are despite living very differently.