Paedomorphic facial expressions give dogs a selective advantage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Waller, Bridget M ^a   Peirce, Kate ^a   Caeiro, Cátia C ^a   Scheider, Linda ^b   Burrows, Anne M ^c,d   McCune, Sandra ^e   Kaminski, Juliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e WALTHAM CENTRE FOR PET NUTRITION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOG; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PAEDOMORPHIC FACIAL EXPRESSION; WOLF;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOGS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84890915037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082686     Document Type: Article

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