Dogs discriminate between barks: The effect of context and identity of the caller

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 198-201

  Molnár, Csaba ^a   Pongrácz, Péter ^a   Faragó, Tamás ^a   Dóka, Antal ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bark; Communication; Dogs

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CANID; COMMUNICATION; CONSPECIFIC; HABITUATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 68749115306     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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