Dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition
Miklósi, ÁdámAuthor
Miklâosi, âAdâam.Author
Collates and synthesizes 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collates and synthesizes 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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 17, 2014).
Dogs in historical perspective -- Concepts in the study of dog behaviour -- Methodological issues in the behavioural study of the dog -- Dogs in anthropogenic environments : family and society -- Comparative overview of Canis -- The story of domestication : archaeological and phylogenetic evidence -- The emergence of phentotypic novelty -- Intra-specific social organization in dogs and related forms -- The conceptual world of the dog -- Physical-ecological problem solving -- Affiliative and agonistic social relationships -- Communication, play, and collaboration -- Social learning and social problem solving -- Change of behaviour in time : from birth to death -- The organization of individual behaviour -- The genetic contribution to behaviour.
Dogs
Dogs
Agriculture
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Animal Sciences