UID:
almahu_9949449042402882
Format:
1 online resource (418 p.)
ISBN:
9780124079311
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0124079318
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9780124078185
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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 Cognition includes chapters from leading researchers in the fields of social cognition and behavior, vocalization, evolution, and more, focusing on topics including dog-dog and dog-human interaction, bonding with humans, social behavior and learning, and more. Dogs are being studied in comparat
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Includes index.
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Front Cover; The Social Dog: Behaviour and Cognition; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Section I - Theoretical Aspects; Chapter 1 - The Social Dog: History and Evolution; 1.1 WHERE DO DOGS' SOCIALITY AND SOCIO-COGNITIVE ABILITIES COME FROM? THE CANID STORY; 1.2 WHERE DO DOGS' SOCIALITY AND SOCIO-COGNITIVE ABILITIES COME FROM? THE DOG-HUMAN STORY; 1.3 CONCLUSIONS AND BOOK OVERVIEW; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 - On the Way to a Better Understanding of Dog Domestication: Aggression and Cooperativeness in Dogs and Wolves
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2.1 DOG DOMESTICATION AND HUMAN EVOLUTION: THE ROLE OF WOLF-DOG COMPARISONS2.2 HUMAN-LIKE BEHAVIOUR IN DOGS BUT NOT IN WOLVES: PART 1; 2.3 EXPLAINING DOG-WOLF DIFFERENCES: DOMESTICATION HYPOTHESES; 2.4 SELECTION FOR REDUCED AGGRESSION IN DOGS: BUT WHAT KIND OF AGGRESSION?; 2.5 EARLIER ORIGINS OF DOG-HUMAN COOPERATION: CANINE COOPERATION HYPOTHESIS (RANGE ET AL., 2012; RANGE & VIRÁNYI, 2013, 2014); 2.6 HUMAN-LIKE BEHAVIOUR IN DOGS BUT NOT IN WOLVES: PART 2; 2.7 PRACTICAL RELEVANCE; REFERENCES; Section II - Social Behaviour
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Chapter 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' Behaviour3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 DOG POPULATION; 3.3 WITHIN GROUP RELATIONSHIPS; 3.4 INTERGROUP RELATIONSHIPS: SPACING PATTERN; 3.5 VARIATION IN DOG SOCIETY; 3.6 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 - Social Behaviour among Companion Dogs with an Emphasis on Play; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 SOCIAL PLAY; 4.3 DOMINANCE; 4.4 DOG-DOG AGGRESSION AND RECONCILIATION; 4.5 FRIENDLY BEHAVIOUR; 4.6 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES
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Chapter 5 - Auditory Communication in Domestic Dogs: Vocal Signalling in the Extended Social Environment of a Companion Animal5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 HOW DOGS PRODUCE VOCAL SIGNALS; 5.3 DESCRIPTION OF DOG VOCAL REPERTOIRE (AND COMPARISON WITH WOLVES, CANIS LUPUS); 5.4 THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF ACOUSTIC VARIATION; 5.5 THE PERCEPTION OF HUMAN VOCAL SIGNALS BY DOGS; 5.6 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6 - The Immaterial Cord: The Dog-Human Attachment Bond; 6.1 BEING SOCIAL, BEING BONDED, BEING A DOG; 6.2 ATTACHMENT: A BRIDGE BETWEEN ETHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
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6.3 ON THE NATURE OF THE DOG-HUMAN BOND6.4 ORIGIN OF DOG-HUMAN BOND: WHAT DO WE KNOW?; 6.5 WHEN A BOND IS NOT FOREVER; 6.6 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 - The Personality of Dogs; 7.1 THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUALITY; 7.2 THE CONCEPT OF PERSONALITY IN DOGS; 7.3 NATURE AND NURTURE: THE ROLE OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN DOGS' PERSONALITY; 7.4 CONSISTENCY OF PERSONALITY TRAITS; 7.5 CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 - When the Bond Goes Wrong: Problem Behaviours in the Social Context; 8.1 INTRODUCTION
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8.2 AN INITIAL FRAMEWORK FOR CONSIDERING HUMAN-DOG SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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English
Language:
English
