"Calculating a dog’s age in human years is harder than" Topic

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"To estimate your dog's age in human years, multiply the dog's age by seven, right? Wrong.

A more accurate conversion isn't so easy to do in your head: Multiply the natural logarithm of the dog's age by 16, then add 31. Researchers report this new canine age formula online July 2 in Cell Systems.

As animals get older, tiny chemical tags called methyl groups get added and removed from DNA. These changes track with different stages of growth and can be used to determine biological age. Scientists can even compare changes across species. In this case, the researchers compared the methylation states of 320 humans, ages 1 to 103 years, with those of 104 Labrador retrievers, ages 5 weeks to 16 years…."
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So… my beloved Beagle died at the age of 16 and a half years… how much of "human" age she had?… 90?
Thanks for your help

By the way… how much lived your must beloved dog?…

Amicalement
Armand

Amicalement
Armand

"Multiply the natural logarithm of the dog's age by 16, then add 31".

What???

My dog is very old, almost 19 now, in real years.

Sadly they don't live long enough.

Most of mine lived to 13-14 years. Current one (greyhound) is almost 7 years .

Poor dogs ! They reach 31 almost the moment they are born, then go from 40 to 70 over the next twelve years…

My daughter's dog is about eighteen months old, and behaves more like a human teenager than a 37yr old, so I'll stick with the "x7" rule !

my beast is 15 actual. both of us take long, deep naps and move slowly and somewhat painfully. but we never have problems getting to the supper table.

Too much math to contemplate while browsing a forum about miniatures. I do like dogs, though.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand