ARTICLE IN PRESS ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2008,--,--e-doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.010 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com FORUM Ontogeny’s impacts on humanedog communication

• Main Authors: Clive D. L. Wynne, Monique A. R. Udell, Kathryna. Lord
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Canis familiaris; dog; evolution; ontogeny; object choice task; social cognition; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.183.4487; http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/spackled/2008readings/Wynne_on_dogs_2008.pdf

Several authors have argued recently that domestication has led to a special sensitivity to human social cues in domestic dogs, Canis familiaris. This sensitivity is not present in dogs ’ closest wild relatives and progenitors, wolves, Canis lupus (Hare et al. 2002; Kubinyi et al. 2007). Furthermore, even puppies too young to have had extensive exposure to humans are able to follow human social cues. Consequently this ability must have a largely innate basis (Hare & Tomasello 2005; Hare et al. 2005). Various forms of cueing the location of hidden food by a human pointing with her limbs have been extensively used as tests of canid comprehension of human intentions (e.g.