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Developmental features of sleep electrophysiology in family dogs

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
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

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Separation-related behavior of dogs shows association with their reactions to everyday situations that may elicit frustration or fear

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
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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Proceedings of the 50th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology : Past and Future : Standing on the Shoulders of Giants; 12-16 July 2016, Edinburgh, UK

open access: yes, 2016
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.

core   +1 more source

Applied ethology in the EU: development of animal welfare standards and actions

open access: yes, 2016
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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Working Smarter Not Harder: Oxytocin Increases Domestic Dogs’ (Canis familiaris) Accuracy, but Not Attempts, on an Object Choice Task

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid learning of object names in dogs

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

From Ethology to Behavioral Biology

open access: yes, 2019
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
core   +1 more source

The effect of an interventional program based on the Theory of Ethology on infant breastfeeding competence [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Neonatology, 2014
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
doaj   +2 more sources

Resting-state fMRI data of awake dogs (Canis familiaris) via group-level independent component analysis reveal multiple, spatially distributed resting-state networks

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

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