Learning and owner-stranger effects on interspecific communication in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-49

  Elgier, Angel M ^a   Jakovcevic, Adriana ^a   Mustaca, Alba E ^a   Bentosela, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dogs; Learning; Owner; Pointing

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CANID; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; FEMALE; GESTURE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMMUNICATION; CUES; DOGS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; REVERSAL LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 63349102572     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.023     Document Type: Article

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