ISBN: 9780124078185

Description: xiv, 404 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Text in English.

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.

LCCN: 2014430371

Control Number: 1195942

Subjects:

• Cognition in animals.
• Dogs -- Behavior -- Evolution.
• Dogs -- Behavior.
• Dogs -- Psychology.
• Human-animal relationships.
• Social behavior in animals.

Other Authors:

• Kaminski, Juliane, 1973- editor.
• Marshall-Pescini, Sarah, editor.