Man's underground best friend: Domestic ferrets, unlike the wild forms, show evidence of dog-like social-cognitive skills

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hernádi, Anna ^a,b   Kis, Anna ^a,b   Turcsán, Borbála ^b   Topál, József ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERRET; GESTURE; HYBRID; MALE; MUSTELA FURO; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TOUCH; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CUES; DOGS; FEMALE; FERRETS; GESTURES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84865053264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043267     Document Type: Article

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