Horowitz, who runs the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, is the author of The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves Puppies aren’t born barking, just as children aren’t born chattering.

Have you ever looked at your dog’s face and thought that there definitely is a human soul trapped in a dog body? Indeed, the dog-human bond is something of an anomaly in how easily two completely ...

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A litter of endangered red wolves was recently born in captivity. There are about 250 red wolves in the U.S. and these four were an unexpected surprise because the male was thought too old to breed.