Dogs are able to solve a means-end task

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 575-583

  Range, Friederike ^a,b,c   Hentrup, Marleen ^b,d   Virányi, Zsófia ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Clever Dog Lab   (Austria)

^c Wolf Science Center   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clicker training; Dogs; Means end understanding; On off problem; Reward type; Support problem

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REWARD;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 79959282880     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-011-0394-5     Document Type: Article

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