Dogs inspire an enormous amount of curiosity about how they interpret the world, and their vision remains one of the most misunderstood areas of canine science. The common belief that dogs see only in ...

When my wife and I rented an isolated beach cottage for a long weekend getaway, our two black Labrador retrievers — Jack and Nova — came along, too. There was nobody else there on the miles-long beach ...

We all know dogs are colorblind—or do we? Many people assume pups see the world in black and white, but that’s actually a myth. While their vision is different from ours, it’s far from colorless. In ...

In a series of previous essays, I summarized the five major senses dogs use to navigate their social and nonsocial worlds either singly or by combining them into what ethologists call composite ...