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Dr. Sophie Barton @sophiebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you want to know more about the dog brain? (Hint: the answer is yes) Then check out Erin Hecht and I’s new textbook chapter called Canine Neuroscience! 🐶 🧠 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A top figure showing the major regions of dog cortex on the left and inner brain regions on the right. Below it shows an evolutionary tree with drawings of the brains of different canid species.

A textbook cover that says Ana Gabriela Jimenez Silvan R. Urfer, Canine Science: An Interdisciplinary Look at Our Best Friend

A screenshot of the first page of the Canine Neuroscience chapter

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In this 🧵, we’ll break down a study by Koungoulos and colleagues that compared ancient Dingo remains with modern Dingoes, East Asian dogs, and New Guinea Singing Dogs to explore how these closely related dogs have changed over time. 🦴🐕

A graphic with the title "Singing Dog Science." It then has the name of the paper, Phenotypic diversity in early Australian dingoes revealed by traditional and 3D geometric morphometric analysis. The authors are Loukas G. Koungoulos, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Melanie Fillios, and Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Aboriginal Advisory Group. It was published in Scientific Reports in 2024.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

MYTH 5: NGSDs can’t be trained There are NGSDs who participate and compete in dog sports

A beige dog sniffing for the target odor.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

MYTH 4: NGSDs won’t get along with other pets Every NGSD is an individual, but there are many instances of NGSDs getting along with other pets

A beige dog sitting next to a lounging Tibetan Mastiff on a couch.

A mixed breed dog smacking her paw against a beige New Guinea Singing Dog.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

MYTH 3: NGSDs can’t live indoors While some NGSDs are kept outdoors, many live peacefully indoors

A beige dog lounging in an armchair and howling.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

MYTH 2: NGSDs don’t play bow NGSDs are indeed capable of play bowing, just like other dogs, gray wolves, and coyotes

A beige dog play bowing to a miniature schnauzer.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

MYTH 1: NGSDs never bark While it is true that NGSDs generally bark less than most Western dogs, they are still capable of producing this vocalization. (Listen to video with volume to hear for yourself)

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

5 Common Myths About New Guinea Singing Dogs, a thread 🧵:

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SciStarter @scistarter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

August 26 is National Dog Day! 🐾 Your dog can be more than your best friend. They can be your research partner. The projects in our latest newsletter help scientists learn how dogs think and age right alongside us. Grab your favorite "lab" partner and do some science today: conta.cc/4xVMG34

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Here's the link to the original article: bioone.org/journals/pac...

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did you know that parasitic worms can help us trace historical dog migration? No seriously! The presence of fossilized eggs of canine-specific roundworms at archeological sites in New Guinea strongly suggest dogs were present on the island 3,000 years ago.

A graphic that says "Singing Dog Science. Records of Helminth Parasites at Archaeological Sites in the New Guinea Highlands, from c. 18,000 Yr B.P., Suggest Late Holocene Presence of Dogs and Pigs
Mark Horrocks, Tim P. Denham, & Bronwen Presswell
Pacific Science
2025"

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(7/7) Modern breed dogs invest more in frontotemporal communication pathways, whereas premodern dogs have stronger connectivity in temporal-motor circuits.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(6/7) On the other hand, premodern dogs showed stronger connectivity between auditory and movement regions of the brain, particularly in the right temporal cortex.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(5/7) Modern breed dogs showed a greater number of streamlines (white matter bundles) in a pathway previously found to be involved in communication and the processing of human language. It was most robust in trained service Labrador Retrievers.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(4/7) Researchers from Harvard's Canine Brains Project scanned the brains of 108 modern breed and premodern dogs to compare their communication and auditory networks.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(3/7) NGSDs and other premodern dogs can inform us what dogs are like prior to intense human modification.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

(2/7) NGSDs are premodern (primitive) dogs that have not been subject to extreme artificial selection.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There is a new study about the dog brain that includes a New Guinea Singing Dog! We summarize it here in this thread (1/7)

Shows the title of the paper "Selection and learning shape communication networks in the dog brain"

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Heidi Ann @heidiann1.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A barking New Guinea Singing Dog #singers #newguineasingingdog #rabbit

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New Guinea Singing Dogs are notorious for chorus howling (howling as a group with other NGSDs). In 1885, a naturalist named Alexander Morton wrote that for NGSDs "it is a point of honour for all the others to howl for company, until the noise transcends all description."

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RB Kollannur @arby-k.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Ancient Korean dogs resembled the Australian dingo and the New Guinea singing dog. Study Suggests Korea’s Ancient Dogs Differed from Other East Asian Canines archaeology.org/news/2026/05...

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News - Study Suggests Korea’s Ancient Dogs Differed from Other East Asian Canines - Archaeology Magazine

SOUTH GYEONGSANG, SOUTH KOREA—A genetic study of the remains of four 2,000-year-old dogs recovered from […]

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There are roughly 300 or so New Guinea Singing Dogs (NGSDs) living in the United States and Canada. While occasionally housed in zoos and sanctuaries, most NGSDs live in homes as treasured companion dogs.

A small tan dog that looks like a dingo gazes at the camera with a smile. In the background, another tan dog lounges against a chair.

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This study by our board member Dr. Sophie Barton included a New Guinea Singing Dog! The first neuroimaging study ever to do so!

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PLOS One @plosone.org · 21/05/2026

A new study by Kim and colleagues finds ancient Korean dog genomes reveal a distinct East Eurasian lineage related to dingoes and New Guinea Singing Dogs, with early Western Eurasian admixture.

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Ancient East Asian dog lineage is revealed by genome of ancient Korean dogs

Dogs form a monophyletic clade comprising three major sublineages: Eastern Eurasian, Western Eurasian, and sled dog lineages. While ancient genomic studies have clarified relationships within the…

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Heidi Ann @heidiann1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

How can you not love this face! Tri color New Guinea Singing Dog

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New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society @ngsdconservation.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Descended from East Asian dogs, New Guinea Singing Dogs evolved in the highlands of New Guinea. These free-ranging dogs hunt prey, as well as opportunistically scavenge human food scraps. Their howls have an ethereal, song-like quality to them (hence their name).

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