This article reviews recent research concerning dog–human relationships and how
attributes that arise from them can be measured. It highlights the influence of human …

This book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how captive
breeding and management of wild and domestic animals have affected their behaviour and …

This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research
literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological …

The present investigations were undertaken to compare interspecific communicative abilities
of dogs and wolves, which were socialized to humans at comparable levels. The first study …

On the basis of a study by DJ Povinelli, DT Bierschwale, and CG Cech (1999), the
performance of family dogs (Canis familiaris) was examined in a 2-way food choice task in …

Research in comparative social cognition addresses how challenges of social living have
formed the cognitive structures that control behaviours involved in communication, social …

Using the Strange Situation Test originally developed for testing the mother–infant
relationship in humans, we compared the attachment behaviour of extensively socialized …

Dogs'(Canis familiaris) and cats'(Felis catus) interspecific communicative behavior toward
humans was investigated. In Experiment 1, the ability of dogs and cats to use human …

Dogs have a remarkable skill to use human-given cues in object-choice tasks, but little is
known to what extent their closest wild-living relative, the wolf can achieve this performance …

Our aim was to evaluate how human beliefs affect working dog outcomes in an applied
environment. We asked whether beliefs of scent detection dog handlers affect team …