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Take for instance the kiss a dog gives you when you come home. It looks like love, but it could also be hunger. Wolves also lick one another's mouths, particularly when one wolf returns to the pack. They can use their sense of taste and smell to see if the returnee has caught some prey on its journey. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. The kiss dogs give us probably evolved from this inspection. "If we happened to spit up whatever...
...foxes are a guide, dog evolution may have begun with a similar shift in personality. Ancestors of dogs could cooperate to hunt, but the cooperation had limits. Wolves are fiercely competitive, as each one tries to claw its way to the top of the pack. Hare proposes that aggressive wolves evolved to have an easygoing personality thanks to a new opportunity: trash...
...biggest challenge to the new experiments, Hare says, will be not the giant pack of dogs he'll be studying but their anxious owners. "When a puppy does badly, people get upset," says Hare. "You have to emphasize that this is not the SATs...
Coming off its first weekend of competition, the Harvard sailing team was eager to get back out on the water and improve on its first week’s performance. But despite its intentions, the Crimson once again finished mid-pack at its four regattas this weekend.“We were a little disappointed with our results as a team this weekend,” captain Liz Powers said. “We will look to rebound our next time out on the water.”The women’s squad once again brought home the best...
...their homes into rentals. Yes, there are early signs that home sales are steadying and prices are picking up, but some owners have been waiting for years to sell - to move to new towns, to better jobs - and simply can't hold out any longer. Their solution is to pack the old place with tenants and no longer be trapped by an unsalable property...