Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and CognitionOUP Oxford, 11 dec 2014 - 416 pagina's This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive scientific study without the need to confine them to a laboratory environment. This second, fully updated edition of Dog Behaviour, Evolution and Cognition starts with an overview of the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the study of the dog, followed by a brief description of their role in human society. An evolutionary perspective is then introduced with a summary of current research into the process of domestication. The central part of the book is devoted to issues relating to the cognitive aspects of behaviour which have received particular attention in recent years from both psychologists and ethologists. The book's final chapters introduce the reader to many novel approaches to dog behaviour, set in the context of behavioural development and genetics. This second edition recognises and discusses the fact that dogs are increasingly being used as model organisms for studying aspects of human biology, such as genetic diseases and ageing. Specific attention is also given in this edition to attachment behaviour which emerges between humans and dogs, the importance of inter-specific communication in the success of dogs in human communities and the broad aspects of social cognition and how this may contribute to human-dog cooperation Directions for future research are highlighted throughout the text which also incorporates links to human and primate research by drawing on homologies and analogies in both evolution and behaviour. The book will therefore be of relevance and use to anyone with an interest in behavioural ecology including graduate students of animal behaviour and cognition, as well as a more general audience of dog enthusiasts, biologists, psychologists, veterinarians, and sociologists. |
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13 Practical considerations | 12 |
Further reading | 13 |
2 Concepts in the study of dog behaviour | 16 |
22 Evolutionary considerations | 20 |
what is it like to be a dog? | 22 |
24 Lupomorphism or babymorphism? | 24 |
25 An ethological approach to the behaviour systems | 25 |
9 The perceptual world of the dog | 183 |
93 Vision | 187 |
94 Hearing | 191 |
95 Olfaction | 192 |
96 Practical considerations | 200 |
10 Physicalecological problem solving | 205 |
103 Complex spatial problem solving | 209 |
104 Following moving objects in space | 211 |
26 An ethocognitive mental model for the dog | 30 |
27 Practical considerations | 34 |
Further reading | 35 |
3 Methodological issues in the behavioural study of the dog | 39 |
33 How to measure dog behaviour? | 41 |
34 Finding the right procedure | 48 |
35 Making behavioural comparisons | 49 |
36 Sampling and the problem of single cases n 1 | 55 |
37 The presence of humans during testing | 57 |
38 Incentives for dogs in learning and training tasks | 58 |
39 Asking questions | 60 |
310 Practical considerations | 62 |
311 Conclusions and three outstanding future challenges | 63 |
family and society | 68 |
43 Modelling the general population structure of dogs | 70 |
44 Dogs in human society | 71 |
45 Interactions between dogs and people in public | 75 |
46 Dogs in the family | 76 |
47 Dogs and human wellbeing | 79 |
48 Social competition in humandog groups and its consequences | 80 |
life in animal shelters | 85 |
410 Challenges to dogs in postmodern society | 90 |
Further reading | 92 |
5 Comparative overview of Canis | 97 |
53 Geographic distribution | 99 |
54 Evolution of Canis | 103 |
55 The ecology and dynamics of group living in Canis | 107 |
56 Comparative biology of Canis | 118 |
57 Practical considerations | 119 |
References | 120 |
archaeological and phylogenetic evidence | 124 |
63 Archaeology confronts phylogenetics | 130 |
64 Considerations of evolutionary biology with regard to the domestication of dogs | 146 |
65 Practical considerations | 148 |
66 Conclusions and three outstanding future challenges | 149 |
7 The emergence of phenotypic novelty | 153 |
similarities and differences | 165 |
74 Practical considerations | 168 |
75 Conclusions and three outstanding future challenges | 169 |
8 Intraspecific social organization in dogs and related forms | 172 |
83 Dingoes | 174 |
84 Freeranging not owned dogs | 175 |
85 Practical considerations | 177 |
86 Conclusions and three outstanding challenges | 180 |
Further reading | 181 |
105 Manipulating objects | 216 |
106 The ability to make quantity judgements | 217 |
108 Conclusions and three outstanding challenges | 219 |
Further reading | 220 |
11 Affiliative and agonistic social relationships | 223 |
112 An ethological concept of attachment | 226 |
114 The agonistic aspects of social relationships in dogs | 236 |
115 The effect of domestication on aggressive behaviour in dogs | 241 |
116 Practical considerations | 246 |
117 Conclusions and three outstanding challenges | 247 |
12 Communication play and collaboration | 252 |
122 Play | 269 |
123 Cooperation | 272 |
124 Practical considerations | 274 |
125 Conclusions and three outstanding challenges | 275 |
13 Social learning and social problem solving | 280 |
behavioural conformity and synchronization | 283 |
135 Social learning | 285 |
136 Social anticipation | 289 |
138 Problem solving using public information | 290 |
139 Practical perspectives | 293 |
1310 Conclusions and three outstanding challenges | 295 |
from birth to death | 299 |
143 Life phases | 303 |
144 What are sensitive periods for? | 312 |
145 The development of social attraction | 315 |
146 Early experience and its influence on behaviour | 316 |
puppy testing | 317 |
148 Practical considerations | 319 |
149 Conclusions and three outstanding challenges | 320 |
15 The organization of individual behaviour | 324 |
152 Constructing a multidimensional behavioural model of personality | 325 |
153 Functional approach to dog personality | 331 |
154 Mechanistic approach to personality traits | 337 |
155 Developmental aspects of personality | 341 |
156 Practical considerations | 342 |
16 The genetic contribution to behaviour | 346 |
concepts and strategies | 349 |
the fox experiment | 359 |
164 Practical considerations | 364 |
165 Conclusion and three outstanding challenges | 365 |
Further reading | 366 |
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