Learning interspecific communicative responses in Pampas foxes (Lycalopex gymnocercus)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-51

  Barrera, Gabriela ^a   Jakovcevic, Adriana ^a   Mustaca, Alba ^a   Bentosela, Mariana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Canids; Interespecific communication; Learning; Pampas's foxes

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANID; DOMESTIC SPECIES; DOMESTICATION; LEARNING; ONTOGENY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOX; GAZE; GESTURE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOXES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PSEUDALOPEX GYMNOCERCUS;

EID: 82955237466     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Barrera G., Mustaca A., Bentosela M. Communication between domestic dogs and humans: effects of shelter housing upon the gaze to the human. Anim. Cogn. 2011, 10.1007/s10071-011-0407-4.
2. Bentosela M., Barrera G., Jakovcevic A., Elgier A.M., Mustaca A.E. Effects of reinforcement, reinforcer omission and extintion on a communicative response in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Behav. Processes 2008, 78:464-469.
3. Bräuer J., Kaminski J., Riedel J., Call J., Tomasello M. Making inferences about the location of hidden food: social dog, causal ape. J. Comp. Psychol. 2006, 120:38-47.
4. Carazo P., Font E. Putting information back into biological communication. J. Evol. Biol. 2010, 23:661-669.
5. Csányi V. The 'human behavior complex' and the compulsion of communication: key factors of human evolution. Semiotica 2000, 128:45-60.
6. Elgier A.M., Bentosela M. El gesto de señalar: una llave para la comunicación entre especies. Interdisciplinaria 2009, 26:157-182.
7. Elgier A.M., Jakovcevic A., Barrera G., Mustaca A.E., Bentosela M. Communication between domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and humans: dogs are good learners. Behav. Processes 2009, 81:402-408.
8. Emery N.J. The eyes have it: the neuroethology, function and evolution of social gaze. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2000, 24:581-604.
9. Gácsi M., Philip J., Miklósi A. Which way does domestication work: creating new traits or modifying timing?. J. Vet. Behav. 2009, 4:58.
10. Gaunet F. How do guide dogs of blind owners and pet dogs of sighted owners (Canis familiaris) ask their owners for food?. Anim. Cogn. 2008, 11:475-483.
11. Gomerzano I., Moore J.W. Classical conditioning. In Learning: Processes Classical 1969, 121-203. Willey, New York. M.H. Marx (Ed.).
12. Gómez J.C. Pointing behaviors in apes and human infants: a balanced interpretation. Child Dev. 2007, 78:729-734.
13. Hare B., Tomasello M. Human-like social skills in dogs?. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2005, 9:439-444.
14. Hare B., Plyusnina I., Ignacio N., Schepina O., Stepika A., Wrangham R., Trut R. Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domestication. Curr. Biol. 2005, 15:226-230.
15. Hare B., Rosati A., Kaminski J., Bräuer J., Call J., Tomasello M. The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008). Anim. Behav. 2010, 79:e1-e6.
16. Hull C.L., Spence K.W. Correction vs. non-correction method of trial-and-error learning in rats. J. Comp. Psychol. 1938, 25:127-145.
17. Itakura S., Agnetta B., Hare B., Tomasello M. Chimpanzee use of human and conspecific social cues to locate hidden food. Dev. Sci. 1999, 2:448-456.
18. Jakovcevic A., Elgier A.M., Mustaca A.E., Bentosela M. Breed differences in dogs' (Canis familiaris) gaze to the human face. Behav. Processes 2010, 84:602-607.
19. Kendon A. Some functions of gaze-direction in social interaction. Acta Psychol. 1967, 26:22-63.
20. Leavens D.A., Hopkins W.D. The whole-hand point: the structure and function of pointing from a comparative perspective. J. Comp. Psychol. 1999, 113:417-425.
21. Leavens D.A., Russell J.L., Hopkins W.D. Intentionality as measured in the persistence and elaboration of communication by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Child Dev. 2005, 76:291-306.
22. Lindblad-Toh K., Wade C.M., Mikkelsen T.S., Karlsson E.K., Jaffe D.B., Kamal M., Clamp M., Chang J.L., Kulbokas E.J., Zody M.C., Mauceli E., Xie X., Breen M., Wayne R.K., Ostrander E.A., Ponting C.P., Galibert F., Smith D.R., deJong P.J., Kirkness E., Alvarez P., Biagi T., Brockman W., Butler J., Chin C.W., Cook A., Cuff J., Daly M.J., De Caprio D., Gnerre S., Grabherr M., Kellis M., Kleber M., Bardeleben C., Goodstadt L., Heger A., Hitte C., Kim L., Koepfli K.P., Parker H.G., Pollinger J.P., Searle S.M.J., Sutter N.B., Thomas R., Webber C. Genome sequence, comparative analysis and haplotype structure of the domestic dog. Nature 2005, 438:803-819.
23. Lucherini M., Luengos Vidal E. Lycalopex gymnocercus (carnivora: canidae). Mamm. Species 2008, 820:1-9.
24. Lucherini M., Pessino M., Farias A. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan 2004, 63-68. IUCN Canid Specialist Group, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. second ed. C. Sillero-Zubiri, M. Hoffmann, D.W. Macdonald (Eds.).
25. Marshall-Pescini S., Valsecchi P., Petak I., Acorssi P.A., Prato Previde E. Does training make you smarter? The effects of training on dogs' performance (Canis familiaris) in a problem solving task. Behav. Processes 2008, 78:449-454.
26. Marshall-Pescini S., Passalacqua C., Barnard S., Valsecchi P., Prato-Previde E. Agility and search and rescue training differently affects pet dogs' behavior in socio-cognitive tasks. Behav. Processes 2009, 81:416-422.
27. McKinley J., Sambrook T.D. Use of human given cues by domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and horses (Equus caballus). Anim. Cogn. 2000, 3:13-22.
28. Miklósi A. Evolutionary approach to communication between humans and dogs. Vet. Res. Commun. 2009, 33:53-59.
29. Miklósi A., Kubinyi E., Topál J., Gácsi M., Virányi Z., Csányi V. A simple reason for a big difference: wolves do not gaze back at humans but dogs do. Curr. Biol. 2003, 13:763-767.
30. Pang J.F., Kluetsch C., Zou X.J., Zhang A., Luo L.Y., Angleby H., Ardalan A., Ekström C., Sköllermo A., Lundeberg J., Matsumura S., Leitner T., Zhang J.P., Savolainen P. mtDNA data indicates a single origin for dogs south of Yangtze river, less than 16,300 years ago, from numerous wolves. Mol. Biol. Evolut. 2009, 26:2849-2864.
31. Pedersen V., Moeller N.H., Jeppesen L.L. Behavioral and physiological effects of post-weaning handling and access to shelters in farmed blue foxes (Alopex lagopus). Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 2002, 77:139-154.
32. Reid P. Adapting to the human world: dogs' responsiveness to our social cues. Behav. Processes 2009, 80:325-333.
33. Rendall D., Owren M.J., Ryan M.J. What do animal signals mean?. Anim. Behav. 2009, 78:233-240.
34. Riedel J., Schumann K., Kaminski J., Call J., Tomasello M. The early ontogeny of human-dog communication. Anim. Behav. 2008, 75:1003-1014.
35. Skinner B.F. The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis 1938, Appleton-Century, New York. first ed.
36. Skinner B.F. Science and Human Behavior 1953, MacMillan, New York.
37. Smith B.P., Litchfield C.A. How well do dingoes Canis dingo, perform on the detour task?. Anim. Behav. 2010, 80:155-162.
38. Soproni K., Miklósi A., Topál J., Csányi V. Comprehension of human communicative signs in pet dogs (Canis familiaris). J. Comp. Psychol. 2001, 115:122126.
39. Tomasello M., Call J., Hare B. Five primate species follow the visual gaze of conspecifics. Anim. Behav. 1998, 55:1063-1069.
40. Trut L. Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment. Am. Sci. 1999, 87:160-169.
41. Udell M.A.R., Wynne C.D.L. Ontogeny and phylogeny: both are essential to human-sensitive behavior in the genus Canis. Anim. Behav. 2010, 79:e9-e14.
42. Udell M.A.R., Dorey N.R., Wynne C.D.L. Wolves outperform dogs in following human social cues. Anim. Behav. 2008, 76:1767-1773.
43. Udell M.A.R., Dorey N., Wynne C.D.L. The performance of stray dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) living in a shelter on human guided object-choice tasks. Anim. Behav. 2010, 79:717-725.
44. Udell M.A.R., Dorey N.R., Wynne C.D.L. What did domestication do to dogs?. A new account of dogs' sensitivity to human actions. Biol. Rev. 2010, 85:327-345.
45. Vila C., Maldonado J.E., Wayne R.K. Phylogenetic relationships, evolution, and genetic diversity of the domestic dog. J. Hered. 1999, 90:71-77.
46. Virányi Z., Gácsi M., Kubinyi E., Topál J., Belényi B., Ujfalussy D., Miklósi A. Comprehension of human pointing gestures in young human-reared wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris). Anim. Cogn. 2008, 11:373-387.
47. Wilson E.O. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 1975, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. first ed.
48. Wobber V., Hare B., Koler-Matznick J., Wrangham R., Tomasello M. Breed differences in domestic dogs' (Canis familiaris) comprehension of human communicative signals. Interact. Stud. 2009, 10:206-224.