Few relationships in the natural world are as layered and quietly remarkable as the one between dogs and people. Dogs have coexisted with humans for more than 30,000 years, weaving themselves into ...

A lot of dog behavior gets brushed aside because it looks funny, harmless, or easy to explain away in the moment. People laugh when a dog spins in circles, scoots across the carpet, stares at a wall, ...

For many years, psychologists and behavioral biologists agreed that laughter was a unique emotional expression found only in humans. However, as the study of animal emotions expanded this idea was ...