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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:45 PM
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Scientists report that dogs slobber all over the place when drinking water
Despite previous suggestions that cats are daintier drinkers than dogs, a new study finds that canines use the same techniques as kitties to guzzle liquids.

Like cats, dogs depend on the adhesive properties of water to lap the liquid into their mouths. And though the process in dogs is a bit more slobbery than it is for cats, both animals use the tongue like a conveyer belt to transports dollops of water to the throat.

"We were able to show once the liquid got into the mouth, how it was transported through the mouth to be swallowed," study researcher Alfred Crompton, of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, told LiveScience.

Sloppy drinkers

Crompton and his Harvard colleague Catherine Musinsky got the idea of looking at dog's drinking habits when two Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers showed them their data on how cats drink. That study found that cats first touch the tip of their tongue to the surface of a liquid. The liquid adheres and stretches into a long column, around which the cat then snaps its jaws. Based on slow-motion videos of dogs drinking, the researchers believed that dogs use their tongues as ladles, scooping water willy-nilly.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0525/Scientists-report-that-dogs-slobber-all-over-the-place-when-drinking-water
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:47 PM
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1. Water is adhesive?
Who knew?
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:48 PM
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5. it does suffer from surface tension... n/t
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:49 PM
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6. People who have had a film of water cling to them?
:hi:
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:56 PM
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18. But that's just being wet!
I am shocked to my core over this.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 08:08 PM
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19. Try pouring water on a greasy surface..
It doesn't adhere (well, nowhere near as much anyway) to grease, no film and the droplets just slide right off.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 10:38 PM
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20. I never knew.
I'm uneasy about the whole thing.
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:47 PM
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2. This really reads like an Onion article n/t
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:54 PM
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10. I was thinking the same thing.
WTF! Don't these guys have anything better to do?
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:07 PM
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13. That what I thought it was, too.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:48 PM
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3. In other news: water is wet and bears shit in the woods.
How do I get funding to study these mysteries of the universe?
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:48 PM
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4. wow...
all i can say is, "no kidding?!?"

sP
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:51 PM
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7. Wrong forum.
The is LBN material.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:52 PM
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8. Is there a time when dogs don't slobber all over the place? That *would* be a major finding
:shrug:

Pretty interesting, actually. As I recall when the cat study came out, part of the explanation offered for this was that it gave cats an ability to drink from very shallow pools in arid environments. I wonder if dogs evolved with the same pressure, or if this is just the most efficient way to get water into a long predator jaw...
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:53 PM
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9. I think larger dogs are sloppy drinkers
My late, rest in peace, Sara was very dainty when she drank water. Lance the big GS makes a mess.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 04:56 PM
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11. That's a DUH! Nothing new to all dog owners. n/t
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:01 PM
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12. Perhaps I could get a grant to study if repugs are sloppy drunks??
That would give me something to do .......... I could follow the weeping boner around
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:08 PM
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14. Or my ex-husband...LOL...
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:26 PM
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15. So, dogs are nasty?
My cat knew this already.

Meow.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:02 PM
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16. Dogs report that scientists pee all over the place when urinating.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:07 PM
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17. another great scientific contribution to knowledge for humanity.
Thank you, MIT, for not wasting time studying useless things!
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