The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Domestic dogs ‘losing innate skills’
Domestic dogs may have lost some of their innate animal skills when they came in from the wild, research suggests.
In a study comparing wolves and dogs living in near-identical environments, wolves were better at working some things out, particularly at grasping the notion of cause and effect. The tests involved the animals having to choose between two objects – one containing hidden food and the other empty.