Testing the social dog hypothesis: Are dogs also more skilled than chimpanzees in non-communicative social tasks?

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 423-428

  Wobber, Victoria ^a   Hare, Brian ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Dogs; Reversal learning; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

CANID; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; DOMESTICATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; REVERSAL LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 67349267292     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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