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By jtgrady on June 19th, 2012
Scientists have trained three American black bears to count, or at least to select between groups of dots on a touchscreen. (I guess everybody loves these new tablets.) An article on ScienceMag.org reports the bears’ performance in the study matches those of monkeys. Every study like this one takes us another step closer to a [...]
By jtgrady on May 10th, 2012
I recently got into a back-and-forth about greyhound racing under a Huffington Post blog entry. A couple of folks on the pro-racing side talked about the dogs as “athletes” and about how much they are worth in monetary terms. And they claimed the dogs love racing. I came out of the discussion thinking about how [...]
