The social dog : behaviour and cognition / edited by Juliane Kaminski, Psychology Department, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medico-Chirurgica e dei Trapianti, Sezione di Neuroscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Comparative Cognition, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wolf Science Centre, Ernstbrunn, Austria.
Publisher:
Elsevier/Academic PressAcademic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiv, 404 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
The social dog : history and evolution -- On the way to a better understanding of dog domestication : aggression and cooperativeness in dogs and wolves -- 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 -- Social behaviour among companion dogs with an emphasis on play -- Auditory communication in domestic dogs : vocal signalling in the extended social environment of a companion animal -- The immaterial cord : the dog-human attachment bond -- The personality of dogs -- When the bond goes wrong : problem behaviours in the social context -- Social learning in dogs -- What dogs understand about humans -- Dogs' sensitivity to human ostensive cues : a unique adaptation? -- Do dogs show an optimistic or pessimistic attitude to life? -- Wagging to the right or to the left : lateralisation and what it tells of the dog's social brain.
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