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Developmental features of sleep electrophysiology in family dogs
Age-related differences in dog sleep and the age at which dogs reach adulthood as indexed by sleep electrophysiology are unknown. We assessed, in (1) a Juvenile sample (n = 60) of 2–14-month-old dogs (weight range: 4–68 kg), associations between age ...
Vivien Reicher +6 more
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Acquisition and long-term memory of object names in a sample of Gifted Word Learner dogs
Dogs with a vocabulary of object names are rare and are considered uniquely gifted. In a few cases, these Gifted Word Learner (GWL) dogs have presented cognitive skills that are functionally similar to those of human infants.
Shany Dror +4 more
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Separation related disorder in dogs is a multi-faceted phenomenon. Dogs can react to the absence of their owner due to different inner states such as fear, panic or frustration.
Rita Lenkei +3 more
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This book contains the abstracts of the presentations presented at the 50th annual meeting of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE), held in Edinburgh, UK.
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Applied ethology in the EU: development of animal welfare standards and actions
Why does the European Union bother about animal welfare? How did applied ethology come to play such an important role when animal welfare was to be measured and assessed? And was it disputed? Is it still disputed?
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. +1 more
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The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) has been shown to enhance dogs’ ability to perform an object choice task (OCT) involving the use of human pointing cues, when delivered intranasally.
Jessica Lee Oliva +11 more
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Rapid learning of object names in dogs
Learning object names after few exposures, is thought to be a typically human capacity. Previous accounts of similar skills in dogs did not include control testing procedures, leaving unanswered the question whether this ability is uniquely human.
Claudia Fugazza +5 more
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From Ethology to Behavioral Biology
Understanding behavior has been a crucial aim for philosophers and scientists since Aristotle and, particularly, Charles Darwin. In the first half of the 20th century, a coherent scientific discipline–ethology–emerged as afield initially concerned ...
Taborsky, Michael, Michael Taborsky
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The effect of an interventional program based on the Theory of Ethology on infant breastfeeding competence [PDF]
Introduction: according to the ethology theory mother infant separation immediately after birth can interfere with the infants innate behaviors for the initiation of breastfeeding.
aghdas karimi +3 more
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Resting-state networks are spatially distributed, functionally connected brain regions. Studying these networks gives us information about the large-scale functional organization of the brain and alternations in these networks are considered to play a ...
Dóra Szabó +6 more
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