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"Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human environment. The Social Dog: Behaviour and Cognit...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Kaminski, Juliane (Editor), Marshall-Pescini, Sarah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2014]
Subjects:
Dogs > Behavior.
Dogs > Training.
Dogs > Behavior > Evolution.
Social behavior in animals.
Cognition in animals.
Human-animal relationships.
Chiens > Mœurs et comportement.
Chiens > Dressage.
Chiens > Mœurs et comportement > Évolution.
Comportement social chez les animaux.
Cognition chez les animaux.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Animal Husbandry.
Dogs > Behavior
Dogs > Training
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The social dog : history and evolution / Sarah Marshall-Pescini and Juliane Kaminski
  • 2. On the way to a better understanding of dog domestication : aggression and cooperativeness in dogs and wolves / Zsófia Virányi and Friederike Range
  • 3. The social organisation of a population of free-ranging dogs in a suburban area of Rome : a reassessment of the effects of domestication on dogs' behaviour / Roberto Bonanni and Simona Cafazzo
  • 4. Social behaviour among companion dogs with an emphasis on play / Barbara Smuts
  • 5. Auditory communication in domestic dogs : vocal signalling in the extended social environment of a companion animal / Anna Magdalena Taylor, Victoria Frances Ratcliffe, Karen McComb, and David Reby
  • 6. The immaterial cord : the dog-human attachment bond / Emanuela Prato Previde and Paola Valsecchi
  • 7. The personality of dogs / Ádám Miklósi, Borbála Turcsán, and Enikő Kubinyi
  • 8. When the bond goes wrong : problem behaviours in the social context / Daniel Mills, Emile van der Zee, and Helen Zulch
  • 9. Social learning in dogs / Péter Pongrácz
  • 10. What dogs understand about humans / Juliane Bräuer
  • 11. Dogs' sensitivity to human ostensive cues : a unique adaptation? / József Topál, Anna Kis, and Katalin Oláh
  • 12. Do dogs show an optimistic or pessimistic attitude to life? / Oliver Burman
  • 13. Wagging to the right or to the left : lateralisation and what it tells of the dog's social brain / Marcello Siniscalchi and Angelo Quaranta.