Researchers gave stray dogs a choice of three bowls of different coloursAnamitra Roy et al. 2025Street dogs in India appear to love yellow. In an experiment, the free-ranging canines approached an empty yellow bowl around three times more than a nearby blue or grey bowl, even when those other bowls held food.The findings suggest that dogs could have an innate attraction to yellow colouring or possibly that they recognise yellow as the colour of peoples thrown-out food, says Anindita Bhadra at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Kolkata.