Playing styles and possible causative factors in dogs' behaviour when playing with humans

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 473-484

  Tóth, Lilla ^a   Gácsi, Márta ^a   Topál, József ^b   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ball game; Dog; Factor and cluster analysis; Social play; Tug of war

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HOMINID; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLAY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 53149096596     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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