The Importance of the Secure Base Effect for Domestic Dogs - Evidence from a Manipulative Problem-Solving Task

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Horn, Lisa ^a,b   Huber, Ludwig ^a,b,c   Range, Friederike ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Clever Dog Lab Society   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURE BASE EFFECT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; DOGS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OWNERSHIP; PETS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84878471294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065296     Document Type: Article

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