The social dog : behaviour and cognition
2014
Book
Item Details
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
Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2014]