Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: Selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Gácsi, Márta ^a   Györi, Borbála ^a   Virányi, Zsófia ^a,b,d   Kubinyi, Eniko ^a   Range, Friederike ^c,d   Belényi, Beatrix ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Wolf Science Center   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WOLF; ANIMAL; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMMUNICATION; DOGS; GESTURES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; WOLVES;

EID: 69949106918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006584     Document Type: Article

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