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A team of US scientists on the Dog Project, have been studying how dogs process the words that are spoken to them by their owners. The scientists have trained the dogs they study to enter into an MRI scanner voluntarily, without sedation or restraint and stay still.. They have already examined subjects such as the dogs’ neural responses to expected...Read More

Scientists from the University of Sussex and Portsmouth have been examining whether horses are able to remember and understand human facial expressions. The University of Sussex has previously put together a directory of horse facial expressions and carried out another study where they found that equines are able to read human emotions, as can dogs. This study was published in...Read More

A team of scientists from a US medical centre have developed an equine flu vaccine which enables horses to be protected from flu, both now and in the future. The scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center and Technology Departments, the University of Kentucky and the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, chose to focus on improving the...Read More

Veterinary models are essential to help vets practise skills and educate pet owners and farmers. 
New anatomy models have been added to our range. Here are some of the goodies that you can find under the Vet tab on our website.

Bovine Rumen Model.

This anatomy model of a bovine rumen recreates the interior and exterior in detail. This is a fantastic...Read More

The horse needs power to help it gallop quickly and carry a rider or pull a heavy load. The deep muscles help to provide that power, particularly in the hindquarters. The deep muscles lie beneath the superficial muscles, supporting them to do the work. This is the second blog post on equine muscle anatomy - the first covered the superficial muscles on...Read More

The horse is built for movement, from the up and down motion of a trot, to a flowing canter. Movement requires muscles and there are many more muscles in a horse than in a human. Three types of muscle can be found in a horse: skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles which are in the heart and smooth muscle which helps to...Read More