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Puppies | Why Do You Study That?

Duke researchers Vanessa Woods and Brian Hare, Ph.D. have what most would consider a dream job: they study puppies. They run the Duke Canine Cognition lab to learn more about the behavior of dogs, especially how they behave in relation to humans. One of their study goals is to be able to identify puppies that could become good service dogs later in life. They work with puppies at the age of 8 weeks that are provided by Canine Companions for Independence, the leading assistance dog non-profit in the U.S. Woods and Hare, along with an army of student volunteers, raise the puppies, exposing them to a variety of social situations and studying them using cognitive testing, which are essentially games to see how the puppies think. Studying the puppies between the ages of 8 and 20 weeks gives the scientists the time frame when the puppies’ brains have the most adaptiveness and flexibility. At 20 weeks, the puppies graduate from Duke and move on to live with trained puppy raisers elsewhere before starting service dog training. The hope is that this work will reduce the number of puppies who fail out of the training and help fill the need for more service dogs for people with disabilities. For more information about the Duke Canine Cognition Lab visit: https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke... Video by Véronique Koch, additional footage by Jared Lazarus. To learn more about Canine Companions for Independence visit: https://www.cci.org/ 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 A private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke University is known as one of the world’s leading institutions for education, research, and patient care. Subscribe ➡ http://duke.is/zUTmxY 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 #𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 Home: https://duke.edu/ News: https://news.duke.edu/ Twitter:   / dukeu   Instagram:   / dukeuniversity   Facebook:   / dukeuniv