The effect of ostensive cues on dogs' performance in a manipulative social learning task

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 170-178

  Range, Friederike ^a   Heucke, Silke L ^a   Gruber, Christina ^a   Konz, Astrid ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^a   Virányi, Zsófia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attention; Canis familiaris; Dog demonstrator; Human demonstrator; Manipulation; Ostensive cues

Indexed keywords

CANID; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 69249205673     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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