Monday 26 January 2015

Dog-human cooperation is based on social skills of wolves

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Dog-human cooperation is based on social skills of wolves
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 22, 2015 - Commonly accepted domestication hypotheses suggest: "Dogs have become tolerant and attentive as a result of humans actively selecting for these skills during the domestication process in order to make dogs cooperative partners." Friederike Range and Zsofia Viranyi from the Unit of Comparative Cognition at the Messerli Research Institute question the validity of this view and have developed ... more


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