Paula Pérez Fraga
@paulapefraga.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Family Dog Project | I am interested in animal-human interactions, communication, welfare, and emotions | Currently working with dogs but I have a secret love for pigs.
| https://barks-lab.elte.hu/#who | @barkslab.bsky.social
| https://barks-lab.elte.hu/#who | @barkslab.bsky.social
Cheers to the friends that science has given me!
I came to Padua to give a small seminar, and my time here has been amazing 💜
I have learned so much ✨
#animalcognition #ethology #animalbehaviour
I came to Padua to give a small seminar, and my time here has been amazing 💜
I have learned so much ✨
#animalcognition #ethology #animalbehaviour
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Cheers to the friends that science has given me!
I came to Padua to give a small seminar, and my time here has been amazing 💜
I have learned so much ✨
#animalcognition #ethology #animalbehaviour
I came to Padua to give a small seminar, and my time here has been amazing 💜
I have learned so much ✨
#animalcognition #ethology #animalbehaviour
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Our "Talking dogs" review has been featured in @newsweek.com :)
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
Scientists wanted to know if dogs could one day talk—here’s what they found
Tamás Faragó told Newsweek: "We should look at their behavior, how they interact with humans and how they live together with us."
www.newsweek.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Our "Talking dogs" review has been featured in @newsweek.com :)
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
Thank you for the opportunity to share our work with the world .
www.newsweek.com/dogs-etholog...
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📢Meet us!!
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📢Meet us!!
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
Paula @paulapefraga.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher on the behaviour team.
She is interested in animal–human communication and emotions. Her research explores how physiology, vocalizations, and behaviour connect.
You can easily find her hiking in the mountains with her dogs.
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Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Do you want to help us with our new study?🐕🎤
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
A new dog vocalization questionnaire is available! How well can you differentiate dogs based on their growls?
Find out by filling out our new questionnaire!
Click on this link: barks-lab.elte.hu/queries/grow...
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📢Meet us!!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢Meet us!!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
We’re kicking off our intro series with our PI, Tamás Faragó, PhD, @tamsa42.bsky.social who founded BARKS Lab.🎉
Fascinated by canine vocal communication, during his career Tamás studied growls, barks, whines...
Now, he is exploring vocal learning in dogs, the core of our research!
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A recent scientific review examines the biological, cognitive, and ethical factors influencing whether dogs could ever develop speech, highlighting the complexity of canine-human communication. doi.org/g955mh
Could dogs ever talk? New review weighs science, ethics and evolution
A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might sound like science fiction, researchers are taking a closer look at the biological and technological possibilities behind enhancing canine communication.
phys.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A recent scientific review examines the biological, cognitive, and ethical factors influencing whether dogs could ever develop speech, highlighting the complexity of canine-human communication. doi.org/g955mh
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My amazing team members💞
Last Friday the Dept. of Ethology held the Dog Ethology Conference 🐾 for the owners who volunteer in our studies.
Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team.
#DogScience
Our postdoc Rita Lenkei spoke about our review of “Talking Dogs,” PhD student Balázs Szigeti volunteered, and PhD student Franceska Furik was in the organizing team.
#DogScience
September 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My amazing team members💞
💞💞 Dogs are Amazing 💞💞
Congrats to my dear friend @asommese.bsky.social and the Gifted Dog's team for this achievement.
Congrats to my dear friend @asommese.bsky.social and the Gifted Dog's team for this achievement.
Excited to share the latest (but still not the last!) study I had the chance to work on with the Family Dog Project 🐶🇭🇺
We found that Gifted Word Learner dogs' talent goes beyond what we expected; they can generalise words based on function, not just looks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that Gifted Word Learner dogs' talent goes beyond what we expected; they can generalise words based on function, not just looks.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dogs extend verbal labels for functional classification of objects
The relationship between language and human thought is an ongoing debate,1 and it has been proposed that language shapes object categorization.2 Words…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
💞💞 Dogs are Amazing 💞💞
Congrats to my dear friend @asommese.bsky.social and the Gifted Dog's team for this achievement.
Congrats to my dear friend @asommese.bsky.social and the Gifted Dog's team for this achievement.
Simón wishes you a great Sunday 💜
September 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Simón wishes you a great Sunday 💜
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We need to collectively stop legitimizing predatory journals like the MDPI and "Frontiers" journals: don't give them your labor and don't send manuscripts to them (and certainly don't pay them!). I also have been trying my best to remove them from class syllabi as well. 4/4
August 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We need to collectively stop legitimizing predatory journals like the MDPI and "Frontiers" journals: don't give them your labor and don't send manuscripts to them (and certainly don't pay them!). I also have been trying my best to remove them from class syllabi as well. 4/4
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Our P.I., and dog vocalization expert @tamsa42.bsky.social gave this nice interview during #CSF2025
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
#dogethology #dogcommunication #bioacousticsresearch #canineethology | Dogs and Science
What can your dog’s barks and growls really tell you?
At the Canine Science Forum 2025, our Social Media Manager, Jennifer Somers, sat down with canine ethologist and bioacoustician Dr. Tamás Faragó...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our P.I., and dog vocalization expert @tamsa42.bsky.social gave this nice interview during #CSF2025
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
Check it out if you are curious about our work on dog vocal communication and vocal learning :)
www.linkedin.com/posts/dogs-a...
This might be my last dog–pig comparative study (or who knows?).
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Companion pigs alternate orientation between humans and snout-inaccessible targets | Royal Society Open Science
Previous research on intensely human-socialized pigs found no evidence for orientation
alternations to direct human attention to an inaccessible target, the benchmark behaviour
that in many other spec...
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This might be my last dog–pig comparative study (or who knows?).
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So happy to see this article finally published!
I wish you have as much fun reading it as we did writing it!
Congrats to my amazing co-authors 💞❤️
I wish you have as much fun reading it as we did writing it!
Congrats to my amazing co-authors 💞❤️
Our first paper is out!!🐕🎤
Talking dogs? How realistic is it?
We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable.
#dogscience
Talking dogs? How realistic is it?
We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable.
#dogscience
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So happy to see this article finally published!
I wish you have as much fun reading it as we did writing it!
Congrats to my amazing co-authors 💞❤️
I wish you have as much fun reading it as we did writing it!
Congrats to my amazing co-authors 💞❤️
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We are happy to introduce ourselves to the research community. Who are we? What do we do?
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are happy to introduce ourselves to the research community. Who are we? What do we do?
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
📍 BARKS Lab is a research group at the Department of Ethology, ELTE University.
🐕 We’re exploring vocal learning in dogs, backed by an ERC Consolidator Grant
#ethology #animalbehaviour #caninescience #vocal
This is a short, popular science article I wrote about one of our latest projects
www.elte.hu/content/do-w...
www.elte.hu/content/do-w...
Do wild animals have a favourite human? A study with hand-raised wild boars
Az ELTE VII. Tudománykommunikációs Versenyén 2. helyezést elért cikk.
www.elte.hu
July 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is a short, popular science article I wrote about one of our latest projects
www.elte.hu/content/do-w...
www.elte.hu/content/do-w...
Muchos nos estáis preguntando por redCIBA y por las actividades que desarrollamos en ella.
os dejamos un pequeño resumen de nuestros objetivos y de cómo haceros socios
#redCIBA #BienestarAnimal #etologia #produccionanimal #sostenible #welfare #onehealth
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os dejamos un pequeño resumen de nuestros objetivos y de cómo haceros socios
#redCIBA #BienestarAnimal #etologia #produccionanimal #sostenible #welfare #onehealth
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July 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Muchos nos estáis preguntando por redCIBA y por las actividades que desarrollamos en ella.
os dejamos un pequeño resumen de nuestros objetivos y de cómo haceros socios
#redCIBA #BienestarAnimal #etologia #produccionanimal #sostenible #welfare #onehealth
www.instagram.com/p/DLzcxbstlx...
os dejamos un pequeño resumen de nuestros objetivos y de cómo haceros socios
#redCIBA #BienestarAnimal #etologia #produccionanimal #sostenible #welfare #onehealth
www.instagram.com/p/DLzcxbstlx...
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If you think it's hot outside, it's even hotter for your doggo! 🌞 Here's a quick summer safety tip and a reminder for when you need to go out and about. 🚗
Check out our blog post for more summer safety tips: dogagingproject.org/the-dog-days....
Check out our blog post for more summer safety tips: dogagingproject.org/the-dog-days....
June 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you think it's hot outside, it's even hotter for your doggo! 🌞 Here's a quick summer safety tip and a reminder for when you need to go out and about. 🚗
Check out our blog post for more summer safety tips: dogagingproject.org/the-dog-days....
Check out our blog post for more summer safety tips: dogagingproject.org/the-dog-days....
June 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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I have loved this paradigm since the first time I saw it at a conference :)
So cool!!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
I have loved this paradigm since the first time I saw it at a conference :)
So cool!!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🐐🐐
I have loved this paradigm since the first time I saw it at a conference :)
So cool!!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
I have loved this paradigm since the first time I saw it at a conference :)
So cool!!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
So happy to see this finally published!
We tested the sensitivity to human ostension in three pig populations with varying levels of human exposure.
The best part of this project was meeting people who are now friends for life.
Congratulations, Kimberly!
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
We tested the sensitivity to human ostension in three pig populations with varying levels of human exposure.
The best part of this project was meeting people who are now friends for life.
Congratulations, Kimberly!
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Human ostension enhances attentiveness but not performance in domestic pigs
www.nature.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
So happy to see this finally published!
We tested the sensitivity to human ostension in three pig populations with varying levels of human exposure.
The best part of this project was meeting people who are now friends for life.
Congratulations, Kimberly!
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
We tested the sensitivity to human ostension in three pig populations with varying levels of human exposure.
The best part of this project was meeting people who are now friends for life.
Congratulations, Kimberly!
www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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📢 Final call! The deadline to apply for our #AnimalWelfare Student Scholarships is just one week away.
This is your chance to gain valuable research experience & help expand our knowledge of the best ways to improve animal welfare.
🔗 Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/awss
This is your chance to gain valuable research experience & help expand our knowledge of the best ways to improve animal welfare.
🔗 Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/awss
February 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
📢 Final call! The deadline to apply for our #AnimalWelfare Student Scholarships is just one week away.
This is your chance to gain valuable research experience & help expand our knowledge of the best ways to improve animal welfare.
🔗 Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/awss
This is your chance to gain valuable research experience & help expand our knowledge of the best ways to improve animal welfare.
🔗 Apply here: ufaw.org.uk/awss