'The bone is mine': affective and referential aspects of dog growls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 917-925

  Faragó, Tamás ^a   Pongrácz, Péter ^a   Range, Friederike ^b   Virányi, Zsófia ^c   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition   (Austria)

Author keywords

acoustical analysis; Canis familiaris; dog; graded signal; growl; referential communication

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CANID; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC SPECIES; VOCALIZATION;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77949484867     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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