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Hank The Cat Eating Tuna Fish

Opinion: Why cats are fussy eaters but dogs will consume almost anything

13 Nov 2015

Hannah Rowland (Department of Zoology) discusses why different animals have different tastes when it comes to food.

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A toy spaniel, a Pomeranian and a Maltese terrier at a basket – Oil on Canvas by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener 1855

Are you a dog-person, a cat-person, or a bear-person?

16 Sep 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, P is for Pet...

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Escutcheon on King's College Chapel

Going to the dogs: the 500-year old greyhounds of King’s and in the fight against cancer

15 Jul 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, G is for...

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Sleeping dogs

Global snapshot of infectious canine cancer shows how to control the disease

03 Sep 2014

While countries with dog control policies have curbed an infectious and gruesome canine cancer, the disease is continuing to lurk in the majority of...

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Non svegliare il can che dorme

11,000-year-old living dog cancer reveals its secrets

23 Jan 2014

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the world’s oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer that affects dogs.

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A dog called Jasper during the trial

First randomised controlled trial to show spinal cord regeneration in dogs

19 Nov 2012

Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).

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Robin Irvine at the shrine on top of Shilin Bogd

'Extreme Sleepover #12’ – an equestrian adventure on the Mongolian steppes

02 Jan 2012

In the latest report of the Extreme Sleepover series, undergraduate Robin Irvine explains how a fascination for the relationships between humans...

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fox

Was the fox prehistoric man’s best friend?

31 Jan 2011

Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest.

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