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(The domestication of) Nordic domestication?1 [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2020 The domestication concept, originally developed in Britain in the context of media appropriation in households’ everyday life, has seen a relatively high uptake in the Nordic countries from early on. This was by far not only an application of the concept,
Hartmann Maren
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Patterns of domestication in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum): a perspective from multielement stoichiometry [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyUpland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is one of the most important cash crops in the world, but few studies have investigated its chemical and physiological changes during domestication, especially changes in chemical element stoichiometry.
Ziliang Li +6 more
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Village dogs match pet dogs in reading human facial expressions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Most studies on dogs’ cognitive skills in understanding human communication have been conducted on pet dogs, making them a role model for the species. However, pet dogs are just a minor and particular sample of the total dog world population, which would
Martina Lazzaroni +6 more
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Differences in persistence between dogs and wolves in an unsolvable task in the absence of humans [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Despite being closely related, dogs perform worse than wolves in independent problem-solving tasks. These differences in problem-solving performance have been attributed to dogs’ greater reliance on humans, who are usually present when problem-solving ...
Akshay Rao +4 more
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Perceived reward attainability may underlie dogs’ responses in inequity paradigms
Scientific Reports, 2023 Dogs have repeatedly been shown to give their paw to an experimenter more times for no reward when a rewarded conspecific partner is absent than when a rewarded conspecific is present, thereby showing inequity aversion.
Jim McGetrick +5 more
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Current Biology, 2022 Rice is a staple food crop for more than one-third of the global population (http://www.sustainablerice.org/), of which 90% live at or near the poverty line. Thus, rice genetic improvement is important for global food security and is critical for enhancing socioeconomic benefits and reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
Fornasiero, Alice +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Oxytocin (OT) promotes pro-sociality, bonding, and cooperation in a variety of species. Measuring oxytocin metabolite (OTM) concentrations in urine or saliva provides intriguing opportunities to study human and animal behaviour with minimal disturbance ...
G. Wirobski +4 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Domestication has altered dogs’ conspecific social organization compared to their closest, non-domesticated relatives, gray wolves. Wolves live in packs whose survival depends on coordinated behavior, but dogs rely less on conspecifics, which ...
Gwendolyn Wirobski +5 more
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Current Biology, 2019 Humans have been domesticating plants, animals and microbes for centuries. But are we alone in doing so? Brooker and Feeney explain how domestication by animals of other species goes back even farther.
Rohan M, Brooker, William E, Feeney
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Investigating Indirect and Direct Reputation Formation in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Reputation is a key component in social interactions of group-living animals and appears to play a role in the establishment of cooperation. Animals can form a reputation of an individual by directly interacting with them or by observing them interact ...
Hoi-Lam Jim +6 more
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