The behavioural biology of dogs /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Social behavior in animals.; Animal Behavior.; Dogs > Behavior.; Social Behavior.; Dogs > psychology.; Pets and Companion Animals.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Behaviour.; Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Taxonomy and Evolution.; Canidae.; Dogs.; Animal behaviour.; Animal breeding.; Animal physiology.; Behaviour.; Behaviour disorders.; Biology.; Cognitive development.; Disease prevention.; Dog breeds.; Domestication.; Ecology.; Evolution.; Genetic diversity.; Genetics.; Learning.; Personality.; Senses.; Social behaviour.; Therapy.; Working animals.; Electronic books.
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This book provides an up-to-date description of the behavioural biology of dogs. It is written for students of animal behaviour or veterinary medicine at advanced levels and dog owners. This book is divided into 4 parts and 14 chapters. The first part (chapters 1-3) focuses on the evolution and deve...

Table of Contents:

• Evolutionary History of Canids / X. Wang and R.H. Tedford
• Domestication of Dogs / P. Savolainen
• Origin of Dog Breed Diversity / C. Vilà and J.A. Leonard
• Mechanisms and Function in Dog Behaviour / P. Jensen
• Behaviour Genetics in Canids / E. Jazin
• Sensory Physiology and Dog Behaviour / H. Bubna-Littitz
• Social Behaviour of Dogs and Related Canids / D.U. Feddersen-Petersen
• Learning in Dogs / P. Reid
• Behaviour and Social Ecology of Free-ranging Dogs / L. Boitani, P. Ciucci and A. Ortolani
• Evolutionary Aspects on Breeding of Working Dogs / R. Beilharz
• Individual Differences in Behaviour : Dog Personality / K. Svartberg
• Human-Animal Interactions and Social Cognition in Dogs / Á. Miklósi
• Behavioural Disorders of Dogs / R.A. Mugford
• Behaviour and Disease in Dogs / Å. Hedhammar and K. Hultin-Jäderlund.