Dogs Discriminate Identical Twins

Ludvík Pinc; Luděk Bartoš; Alice Reslová; Radim Kotrba

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020704

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Dogs Discriminate Identical Twins

Ludvík Pinc,

Affiliation Department of Animal Science and Ethology, Canine Behavior Research Center, Czech University of Life Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
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Luděk Bartoš ,

* E-mail: bartos@vuzv.cz

Affiliations Department of Animal Science and Ethology, Canine Behavior Research Center, Czech University of Life Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic, Department of Ethology, Institute of Animal Science, Praha Uhříněves, Czech Republic
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Alice Reslová,

Affiliation Institute of Criminalistics, Praha, Czech Republic
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Radim Kotrba

Affiliations Department of Ethology, Institute of Animal Science, Praha Uhříněves, Czech Republic, Department of Animal Science and Food Processing, Institute of Tropics and Subtropics, Czech University of Life Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic
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Dogs Discriminate Identical Twins

Ludvík Pinc,
Luděk Bartoš,
Alice Reslová,
Radim Kotrba

Published: June 15, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020704

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The following articles represent some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: National Geographic
Title: “Dogs Can Sniff Out the Differences Between Identical Twins | National Geographic News Watch”
http://newswatch.national...

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Title: “Lenta.ru: Lenta.ru: Прогресс: Собаки обошли ДНК-тестирование в умении различать близнецов”
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Publication: Live Science
Title: “Dogs Can Tell Apart Identical Twins | LiveScience”
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RE: Media Coverage of This Article

LudekBartos replied to PLOS_ONE_Group on 11 Jul 2011 at 14:36 GMT

See also

Publication: Science
Title: "ScienceShot: Police Dogs Can Distinguish Identical Twins"
http://news.sciencemag.or...

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