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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is cracking down on emotional support animals on airplanes. The agency announced that airlines are not required to recognize emotional support animals as service animals. The new rule states that airlines may treat emotional support animals as pets and require them to be handled as such. Airlines asked the DOT to regulate the issue due to their concern that passengers were taking advantage of the system. Airlines claim that passengers fraudulently passed off their pets as emotional support animals to avoid paying fees. Emotional support animals provide comfort but unlike service animals, they are not required to have training in specific tasks. According to CNN, pigs, peacocks, and other animals have previously flown as emotional support animals.
Banded mongooses could give some tips to reality show TV producers on how to engineer sizzling plot lines. According to CNN, when a female banded mongoose looking to mate with a male from a rival gang, she employees a deeply crafty method to hide those lying eyes. She does it by starting fights--and using the violence as a smokescreen. Banded mongooses are small, cat-like creatures found in small groups in some parts of Africa. The territorial animals rarely leave the groups they are born into. As such, group members are often closely genetically related. Michael Cant is a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation. He says the females start fights between groups to gain genetic benefits from mating with outsiders. However, it takes a toll on the rest of the group. We've known for some time that banded mongoose groups often engage in violent battles -- and now we know why. Michael Cant, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, said in a statement.
While it's tempting to widen your eyes and squeal in delight when your cat enters the room, a new study offers a far more effective approach to cat-charming. Cats greeted with 'cat eye narrowing movements' are more likely to return a similar expression to their owners than when given a neutral glance, or none at all. Gizmodo reports cats produce the same response to strangers. Cats are also more likely to approach them after receiving a slow blink. It's the first experimental evidence suggesting that slow blinking can have a relaxing effect on how cats interact with humans. The study authors say slow blinking can help people establish 'positive emotional communication with felines.
Hungarian researchers want to reassure the human companions of dogs that they do care about you. However, they don't particularly care for your face. In fact, CNN reports dogs can't even distinguish the front of your head from the back of it. Instead, dogs use more information from smell or larger parts of the body to identify people. Despite lacking specialized neural machinery to process faces, dogs nevertheless excel at eye contact, following gaze, and reading emotions from faces. The researchers say that as dogs domesticated, they learned that reading facial cues meant survival, even though they lacked a specific region in the brain to do so.
Оne clever pup named Agra has learned a new way to enjoy the wind in his hair. He loves riding on the backseat of his owner's motorcycle and can often be seen grinning from ear to ear with his tongue out on the highway near Paraguay's Santa Elena district. Agra learned to ride a motorcycle when he was just one year old. Now the five-year-old biker can enjoys long journeys of up to 14 miles or short trips into to town to grab a quick bite to eat.
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