Data from: Age-graded dominance hierarchies and social tolerance in packs of free-ranging dogs ...
It is believed that domestic dogs rarely form packs with age-graded hierarchical structures similar to those found in wolves. Dog-wolf comparisons in captivity suggest that human control has reduced dog dependency on cooperation with conspecifics, resulting in a more despotic dominance order. Howeve...
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Dryad
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.34k42 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.34k42 |
| Summary: | It is believed that domestic dogs rarely form packs with age-graded hierarchical structures similar to those found in wolves. Dog-wolf comparisons in captivity suggest that human control has reduced dog dependency on cooperation with conspecifics, resulting in a more despotic dominance order. However, free-ranging dogs are under stronger natural selection than purebred dogs. They are dependent on companions’ social support but usually exhibit lower reproductive skew than wolves, possibly because access to easily available human-derived food may have relaxed within-group competition. We investigated social dominance in 5 packs of mongrel dogs living in a free-ranging or semifree-ranging state. We aimed at replicating the findings of the few studies that detected a dominance hierarchy in dogs using a larger sample of packs. Additionally, we provided behavioral measures of social tolerance. We found that a linear hierarchy existed in all packs studied and that the rank order was positively related to age in all ... : 1.Total_Number_of_Submissive_interactions_in_dog_packsThis file contains six tables. Each table is a squared matrix reporting the total number of submissive gestures exchanged among dogs belonging to the same pack. So, each table corresponds to a different dog pack. Performers of submissive gestures are reported on the vertical axis on the left side of each table, in which each individual dog is identified using a 2-3 letters code. Recipients of submissive gestures are reported on the upper horizontal axis of each table, and again each individual dog is identified using a 2-3 letter code. Note that the data reported for the Curva pack are not statistically independent from those reported for the Fused pack, since the latter originated from the fusion of the Curva pack with another one and the data collected before and after the fusion event were combined (see Bonanni et al. 2017, Behav Ecol, for additional explanations). In the original paper, the data reported in these tables were used to calculate the ... |
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