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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 comparative cognitive sciences as well as genetics, ethology, and many more areas. As the number of published studies increases, this book aims to give the reader an overview of the state of the art on dog research, with an emphasis on social behavior and socio-cognitive skills. It represents a valuable resource for students, veterinarians, dog specialists, or anyone who wants deeper knowledge of his or her canine companion. - Reviews the state of the art of research on dog social interactions and cognition - Includes topics on dog-dog as well as dog-human interactions - Features contributions from leading experts in the field, which examine current studies while highlighting the potential for future research
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...
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Dr. Juliane Kaminski is an Associate Professor in Comparative Psychology and director of the dog cognition centre at the University of Portsmouth. Before that she was the group leader of the research group "Evolutionary Roots of Human Social Interaction at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig/ Germany where she also completed her PhD in 2005. Her research focuses on the social cognition of different animal species including dogs and chimpanzees.Dr. Sarah Marshall-Pescini is a senior scientist in the Domestication Lab, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, of the Veterinary Medicine University of Vienna. Her main research specialisation is the behaviour and cognition of wolves and dogs in a comparative framework, with a particular attention to the domestication process. She has worked with pets and working dogs, dogs and wolves similarly raised in a captive pack setting (at the Wolf Science Centre), free-ranging dogs and more recently wolves in the wild. She is currently a PI on two international projects looking at the effects of urbanization and domestication on wolves and free-ranging dogs, and Co-PI on two other projects, one of which focuses on the human attitudes and interactions with wolves and dogs.
Dr. Juliane Kaminski is an Associate Professor in Comparative Psychology and director of the dog cognition centre at the University of Portsmouth. Before that she was the group leader of the research group "Evolutionary Roots of Human Social Interaction at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionar...
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