Lessons we should learn from our uni que relationship with dogs : An ethological approach

Human-Animal Studies

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages 163-186

  Topál, József ^a   Gácsi, Márta ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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