The Value Matrix: a communication tool to support shared decision-making and the practice of Spectrum of Care.

Objective: To provide a video tutorial on use of the Value Matrix in clinical practice.

Animals: Any animal for which a preference-sensitive decision can be made regarding their care.

Methods: The veterinary professional gathers a comprehensive history from the veterinary client and uses this information, in further discussion with the client, to develop 2 or more evidence-informed options for the veterinary patient's care.

Limited spatiotemporal niche partitioning among mesocarnivores in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Competition drives community composition and structure in many ecosystems. Spatial and temporal niche partitioning, in which competing species divide the environment in space or time, are mechanisms that may allow for coexistence among ecologically similar species. Such division of resources may be especially important for carnivores in African savannas, which support diverse carnivore assemblages.

Ecology: How mesopredators run with the big dogs.

Food webs are indispensable maps of community organization, but most are crudely drawn - an inconvenient truth that ecologists must confront. A new DNA metabarcoding study quantifies predator-prey interactions and ecological-network structure with long-overdue precision, supplying insight into how large and small carnivores coexist.

Through a Dog's Eyes: fMRI Decoding of Naturalistic Videos from the Dog Cortex.

Recent advancements using machine learning and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to decode visual stimuli from the human and nonhuman cortex have resulted in new insights into the nature of perception. However, this approach has yet to be applied substantially to animals other than primates, raising questions about the nature of such representations across the animal kingdom. Here, we used awake fMRI in two domestic dogs and two humans, obtained while each watched specially created dog-appropriate naturalistic videos.

Using Live and Video Stimuli to Localize Face and Object Processing Regions of the Canine Brain.

Previous research to localize face areas in dogs' brains has generally relied on static images or videos. However, most dogs do not naturally engage with two-dimensional images, raising the question of whether dogs perceive such images as representations of real faces and objects. To measure the equivalency of live and two-dimensional stimuli in the dog's brain, during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we presented dogs and humans with live-action stimuli (actors and objects) as well as videos of the same actors and objects.