Week 3 Twitter Tuesday!

This week for Twitter Tuesday I learned so much more about how to utilize the platform and more about animal facts through my classmates! For this week, we had to use an AI app, Chat GBT to help us with our research and find out about our animal of choice under the canidae or aves category. For this exercise, I chose to ask ChatGBT questions about dogs to further my knowledge. From this, something that stood out to me was how dogs have their own unique ridges and texture on their nose just like how we have our fingerprints. This could be used to identify dogs which was super fascinating to me. They have their form of identification just like us!

To further help my research, I began following more researchers and organizations that studied dogs. One of the researchers that stood out to me was @sebyosiere who had the opportunity to work with other researchers on an article about socialization in dogs and how they develop (Socialization for Puppies).  I learned about the processes of dogs developing social skills as it is crucial for them to gain new experiences with other animals and objects. This account is super helpful so you should check it out if your're interested in dogs! Another account that stood out to me was the organization @TheDogAgingProject whose primary focus is to improve dogs and human life together. I believe this organization is beneficial in helping keep our little fur friends a longer life while allowing us humans to benefit from them. Finally, one of the posts that stood out to me from my classmates was @LawrenceZh98875 about Demikhov dogs. It was heartbreaking to see the amount of suffering these dogs went through as the scientist was testing out organ transplants. Although this did advance the field of organ transplant, it was ultimately interesting to learn about Demikhov’s findings. 

Go check out my twitter @gin_giselle for more updates about my findings! Thank you!