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Communication between domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and humans: Dogs are good learners
(Elsevier Science, 2009-07)
Communication involves a wide range of behaviours that animals emit in their daily lives and can take place between different species, as is the case of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and humans. Dogs have shown to be ...
Breed differences in dogs’ (Canis familiaris) gaze to the human face
(Elsevier Science, 2010-06)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) have been submitted to a vast process of artificial selection and to date, there are hundreds of breeds that differ in their physical and behavioral features. In addition, dogs possess ...
Incentive contrast in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)
(American Psychological Association, 2009-12)
Dogs (Canis familiaris) trained to receive a preferred food (dry beef liver) from an experimenter learned to maintain a longer gaze on the experimenter than dogs receiving a less preferred food (dog pellets). Dogs downshifted ...
Learning and owner-stranger effects on interspecific communication in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)
(Elsevier Science, 2009-05)
Domestic dogs are very successful at following human cues like gazing or pointing to find hidden food in an object choice task. They solve this kind of situation at their first attempts and from early stages of their ...
Pointing following in dogs: Are simple or complex cognitive mechanisms involved?
(Springer Heidelberg, 2012-11)
Domestic dogs have proved to be extremely successful in finding hidden food following a series of human social cues such as pointing (an extended hand and index finger indicating the location of the reward), or body position, ...
Learning interspecific communicative responses in Pampas foxes (Lycalopex gymnocercus)
(Elsevier Science, 2012-01)
Domestic dogs show remarkable communicative abilities in their interaction with people. These skills maybe explained by the interaction between the domestication process and learning experiences during ontogeny. Studies ...
Do more sociable dogs gaze longer to the human face than less sociable ones?
(Elsevier Science, 2012-06)
Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) are especially skillful in communicating with humans, and they rely on special abilities to do that. One of these skills involves gazing at human faces in cases of uncertainty or when seeking ...
Mandibular gland secretions of meliponine worker bees: further evidence for their role in interspecific and intraspecific defence and aggression and against their role in food source signalling
(COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD, 2009)
Like ants and termites some species of stingless bees (Meliponini), which are very important pollinators in the tropics, use pheromone trails to communicate the location of a food source. We present data on the communicative ...
Interspecific social skills in a highly socialized Aguará Guazú (maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus). A pilot-subject studyHabilidades sociales interespecíficas en un Aguará Guazú (Chrysocyon brachyurus) altamente socializado. Estudio de sujeto único
(Sociedade Brasileira de Etologia, 2016-02)
l Aguará Guazú (Chrysocyon brachyurus) es el cánido más grande de Sudamérica y comparte con el lobo (Canis lupus) un ancestro común. Es solitario e incluso en cautiverio evita a otros individuos de la misma u otra especie. ...
Intra- and inter-specific vocal variation in three Neotropical cardinalids (Passeriformes: Fringillidae) and its relationship with body mass
(Csiro Publishing, 2014-03)
The negative relationship between song frequencies and body weight found by Wallschläger in 1980 is well supported by several studies considering a large number of bird species. However, the results obtained when comparing ...