{"id":43181,"date":"2025-12-11T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43181"},"modified":"2025-12-11T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:42:15","slug":"the-dogs-of-today-are-undergoing-a-mysterious-brain-expansion-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43181","title":{"rendered":"The Dogs of Today Are Undergoing a Mysterious Brain Expansion, Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008.avif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43182\" style=\"width:224px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008.avif 980w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/animal-image-royalty-free-image-1764947008-675x676.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/animals\/a69644378\/why-dog-brains-are-getting-bigger\/?ICID=ref_fark\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/animals\/a69644378\/why-dog-brains-are-getting-bigger\/?ICID=ref_fark<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cDifferent dog breeds live in varying levels of social complexity and perform complex tasks, which likely require a larger brain capacity,\u201d Niclas Kolm of Stockholm University, says in the news release. \u201cTherefore, we hypothesize that the selective pressures on the brain can vary within the dog species, and we may find differences in brain size among breeds based on the tasks they perform or their genetic distance from wolves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/animals\/a69644378\/why-dog-brains-are-getting-bigger\/?ICID=ref_fark fta: \u201cDifferent dog breeds live in varying levels of social complexity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[352,330,82],"class_list":["post-43181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-brains","tag-dogs","tag-evolution","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43184,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43181\/revisions\/43184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}