In the past 20 years, research focusing on interspecific sociocognitive abilities of animals
toward humans has been growing, allowing a better understanding of the interactions …

Having one or more non-human animals in our company became a steadily growing custom
around the world. The terminology that describes these non-consumable animals …

Simple Summary Over the past century, the field of animal care and management has
changed in many ways. Changes to animal care strategies are a reflection of our increased …

Communication between dogs and humans is a topic of growing interest, and the
“unsolvable task” is a common method used to measure human-directed communication. In …

Human-oriented referential communication has been evidenced not only in domestic but
also in some wild species, however, the importance of domestication-unrelated species' …

The communicating skills of dogs are well documented and especially their contact-seeking
behaviours towards humans. The aim of this study was to use the unsolvable problem …

Simple Summary Comparative studies can help us better understand our family pets' social
and cognitive behaviours and gain more insights in the evolution of some human abilities …

Highlights•We used citizen science data to compare emotional contagion in domestic dogs
and pigs.•Dogs showed more stress reactions to a high-arousal, negatively valenced human …

Simple Summary In the early 1980s, the late Colin Groves (1942–2017), a noted taxonomist
and suid specialist, proposed that the Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis), an endemic suid …

The motivation to interact with humans is central to dogs' domestication process. This review
aims to provide a curated overview of the current knowledge about dogs' human-directed …