Dogs turn out to be much more sophisticated drinkers than previously realized, since new research explains how they seemingly defy gravity with each gulp. The findings, published in the latest Royal ...

Dogs lap because they have incomplete cheeks and cannot suck. When lapping, a dog’s tongue pulls a liquid column from the bath, suggesting that the hydrodynamics of column formation are critical to ...

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 ...

Using photography and laboratory simulations, researchers studied how dogs raise fluids into their mouths to drink. They discovered that sloppy-looking actions at the dog bowl are in fact high-speed, ...

Dogs aren’t known to be the most graceful of drinkers – place a bowl of water in front of a thirsty canine and you’re likely to see much of its contents splattered across the floor. But researchers ...

But the clips above and below, filmed in X-ray and visible light, challenge assertions that canines drink by scooping up fluid with a backward-curled tongue. Instead, dogs pull up a column of liquid ...

Dogs are better water guzzlers than you’d think. BY Charlie Sorrel Nothing better illustrates a dog’s dull-witted enthusiasm than its chaotic slurping from a water bowl. Like a non-swimmer trying to ...

Cats' gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance extends even to the way they lap milk, say researchers. They analyzed the way cats lap and found that felines of all sizes take advantage of a perfect ...