https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar 2021-08-08T05:04:16+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/21557375/bunny-the-dog-talks-researchers-animal-cognition-language-tiktok matthewmcvickarWhen Bunny presses “Settle, Sound, Ouch,” she might be using a novel string of known words to tell someone to quiet down, or she might be pressing a random series of buttons while confirmation bias on our part does the rest of the work. Even Devine says that she thinks Bunny’s “speech” is primarily operant conditioning, where Bunny has made an association between pressing a button and something happening. A true understanding of language goes beyond simple associations, and involves pulling unique combinations of words together into narratives.]]> internet dogs pets language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:98b50dd7ff90/ 2021-08-08T05:02:39+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/06/talking-dogs-aac-devices-buttons/ matthewmcvickarPet owners and cognitive scientists are exploring if we can teach dogs to speak with buttons, called AAC devices. --- “I do have to say, ‘Okay, how much am I reading into this?’ How much of this is anthropomorphized and how much is like, I’ve already interpreted these buttons in this way, so I’m going to continue to interpret and it becomes its own sort of dialect?” she says. “I try and remain open to all of the possibilities.”]]> dogs pets language internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:353a199144e5/ 2019-07-27T17:25:59+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/magazine/fixing-nemo.html matthewmcvickarRebecca Skloot article on veterinarians who treat fish, as field evolves to meet demands of pet owners; number of households that keep fish is about 13.9 million, and there are nearly 2,000 vets to serve them.]]> pets medicine https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:d2f3073e3113/ 2019-07-27T17:20:15+00:00 https://www.floridatrend.com/article/14279/the-gray-market-supply-chain-for-pet-medicine matthewmcvickarMany vets resent online vendors for undercutting their prices for pet medications. Some vets, however, provide the online and discount vendors with their supplies. ]]> pets business economy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:55637313111d/ 2019-07-18T16:57:31+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1150130975730483201.html matthewmcvickarGet this: All bodies are different. But I don’t mean this in some flip way. I mean it in a bone-deep, beautiful, complicated way. All of the dogs’ bodies are so different.]]> body health pets dogs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:fc92fda456ce/ 2012-01-21T06:40:22+00:00 http://www.apbc.org.uk/articles/destructiverabbits matthewmcvickar rabbit animal pets https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:6e9df9602a39/