Dogs can smell when humans are stressed, study suggests

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Researchers at Queen's University Belfast trained four dogs to sniff out stress. The dogs were able to alert researchers to samples from stressed-out humans. The combined success rate of the four dogs was nearly 94pc across all the study's sessions. The research highlights that dogs do not need visual or audio cues to pick up on human stress.

2 months ago·Belfast, United Kingdom

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