Dogs' expectation about signalers' body size by virtue of their growls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Faragó, Tamás ^a   Pongrácz, Péter ^a   Miklósi, Àdàm ^a   Huber, Ludwig ^b   Virányi, Zsófia ^b,c   Range, Friederike ^b,c  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Clever Dog Lab   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING; VOCALIZATION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOGS; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; PERCEPTION; SIZE PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 78650727985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015175     Document Type: Article

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