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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionTo explore human-canid relationships, we tested similarly socialized and raised dogs (Canis familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus) and their trainers in a wildlife park.
Megane E. Burkhard +5 more
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Validation of a commercial enzyme immunoassay to assess urinary oxytocin in humans
Endocrine Connections, 2021 Within the last decade, oxytocin (OT) has attracted a lot of attention in the context of various human social behaviors. Besides its importance in regulating physiological processes in females related to giving birth and lactation, OT is involved in the ...
Franka S Schaebs +4 more
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Agronomy, 2023 The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops, cultivated globally, today. Despite the economic significance of these domesticated species, the pre-cultivation ranges, processes of domestication, and routes of ...
Rita Dal Martello +15 more
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Context-Specific Arousal During Resting in Wolves and Dogs: Effects of Domestication?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Due to domestication, dogs differ from wolves in the way they respond to their environment, including to humans. Selection for tameness and the associated changes to the autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation have been proposed as the primary ...
Hillary Jean-Joseph +6 more
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Close, but not close enough? Audience’s reactions to domesticated distant suffering in international news coverage [PDF]
, 2017 The interest in audience responses to mediated distant suffering has been growing in the last decade. Earlier research about the mediation of distant suffering was often morally or theoretically based, or textually informed and recent empirical research ...
Huiberts, Eline, Joye, Stijn
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Dogs’ increased human-directed sociability compared to wolves may be the result of increased oxytocin system activity and decreased stress responses, but comparative studies accounting for life experience are lacking. We compared hand-raised, pack-living
Gwendolyn Wirobski +5 more
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Genetic analysis of safflower domestication. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundSafflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is an oilseed crop in the Compositae (a.k.a. Asteraceae) that is valued for its oils rich in unsaturated fatty acids.
Bowers, John E +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The results of current wolf-dog studies on human-directed behaviors seem to suggest that domestication has acted on dogs’ general attitudes and not on specific socio-cognitive skills.
Martina Lazzaroni +5 more
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Land, 2023 In this paper, we use preliminary archaeological data spanning the Iron Age through Medieval periods (ca. 800 BCE to 1200 CE) in the Juuku Valley in Kyrgyzstan on the south side of Lake Issyk-Kul to model land use across vertical mountain zones. We have (
Claudia Chang +4 more
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Pet dogs prefer to work alone than to engage in a challenging cooperative task with conspecifics [PDF]
PeerJUnderstanding the role of a partner is key to effective human cooperation. While we know that non-human animals extensively cooperate with each other, how well they understand the role of their partner is unclear.
Juliana Wallner Werneck Mendes +5 more
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