I started following Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab at UC Davis whose goal is to study animal minds to improve animal welfare. I also started following Dr. Kerri Rodriguez who has her PhD in Human-Animal behavior and has a particular interest in dog-human relationships. Some of the most interesting tweets I found this week mainly had to do with a massive study that showed less than 10% of a dog's breed controls its behaviors (CBSMornings, NewsfromScience, etc.). So, there's now evidence to prove that a dogs breed does not directly correlate with how it interacts with the environment around them and domestication plays a larger role than we might've thought. I retweeted this one article from ScottishSPCA that was talking about the different needs that a domestic animal needs in comparison to a wild animal. I think that this might be important to show how domestication shifts animal's everyday lifestyles. I looked up hashtags that included "Animal behavior," "dog intelligence," "dogs study," "dogs behavior study," "animal behavior," and a few others that mainly consisted of well-established content and accounts that commented on animal behavior and cognition, lots of memes, content that had to do with how dogs help us, studies that discuss how dogs communicate, research and studies that examine the interaction different animals have with other animals, their environments, and other things in the world around them.
I commented on Yael Gutierrez's blog post. This person was focusing in on parrots intelligence and how through two studies they were able to test parrots in order to see how they could pass through various tasks that challenged them to think outside of what they are typically used to. I think in the annotations they did a really nice job explaining their thought process and described exactly what they did to come up with the sources they did. It was also super organized and was easy to follow the process to the study to what the study was about and how it related to their topic to where they were going to bring it up in their paper. I like how they included the key words they searched as well as where they looked up these key words. I thought they did a nice job implementing a picture of one of the parrots that were mentioned from one of the studies. The best piece of advice was to maybe put the picture directly after the bird's name is finished just to break up the text for a second.
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