Category: News, Media, & Events
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Webinar! The Social Lives of Cats
The social lives of cats: What science says about cat behavior and the human-cat bond Although domestic cats and humans have lived with one another for thousands of years, relatively little scientific research has been conducted with cats- especially when compared to the body of research on the domestic dog. Many questions regarding cat behavior,…
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Building the Bond Between Cats and People
New Media Mention: Kym Pokorny, Oregon’s Agricultural Progress, Summer 2016 Link to full story Shreve is a National Science Foundation graduate fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in animal sciences at Oregon State University. As part of Monique Udell’s Human-Animal Interaction lab, Shreve’s research focuses on cat behavior, cognition, and human-cat interactions. She’s had her share of…
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Kitten Training Classes? New Research Suggests Cat Stereotypes Are Just That
New Media Mention: Kyle Bunnell, The Corvallis Advocate June 22, 2016 Link to full story Kristyn Shreve, a graduate research fellow in OSU’s Human-Animal Interaction Lab, or HAI Lab, loves cats. She plays with them, talks to them, and, most importantly, studies them. It turns out we know rather little about cat cognition. Science has…
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What We Understand about Cats and What They Understand about Us
New Media Mention: Felicity Muth, Scientific American March 30, 2016 Link to full story A big part of cats’ lives are spent around their human owners, yet scientists are just starting to understand what they think of us In my last post I introduced the topic of cat cognition and what we broadly know about…
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What’s Going On in Your Cat’s Head?
New Media Mention: Felicity Muth, Scientific American March 29, 2016 Link to full story Cats are often depicted as being less friendly, cooperative and caring than dogs, but what’s really going on in your cat’s head? Unsurprisingly, scientists use dogs in behavioural experiments a lot more often than cats. There are whole ‘canine cognition’ lab groups…
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