Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies
Using the Strange Situation Test originally developed for testing the mother-infant relationship in humans, we compared the attachment behaviour of extensively socialized (hand-reared) dog, Canis familiaris, and wolf, Canis lupus, puppies towards their human caregiver with that of pet dog puppies of...
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ftmtak:oai:real.mtak.hu:3684 2024-06-09T07:45:18+00:00 Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies Topál, József Gácsi, Márta Miklósi, Ádám Virányi, Zsófia Kubinyi, Enikő Csányi, Vilmos 2005 application/pdf https://real.mtak.hu/3684/ https://real.mtak.hu/3684/1/1075605.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.03.025 en eng Elsevier https://real.mtak.hu/3684/1/1075605.pdf Topál, József and Gácsi, Márta and Miklósi, Ádám and Virányi, Zsófia and Kubinyi, Enikő and Csányi, Vilmos (2005) Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies. Animal Behaviour, 70 (6). pp. 1367-1375. ISSN 0003-3472 QL Zoology / állattan Article PeerReviewed 2005 ftmtak https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.03.025 2024-05-15T13:44:04Z Using the Strange Situation Test originally developed for testing the mother-infant relationship in humans, we compared the attachment behaviour of extensively socialized (hand-reared) dog, Canis familiaris, and wolf, Canis lupus, puppies towards their human caregiver with that of pet dog puppies of the same age. The experiment was designed to study whether (1) dog puppies as young as 16 weeks show attachment to a human caregiver, (2) extensive socialization by human caregivers affects attachment behaviour of dog puppies and (3) evolutionary changes (in the form of species-specific differences between wolf and dog pups) affect the emergence of dog-human attachment. We found a characteristic selective responsiveness to the owner in young dogs, similar to that observed in adults. This finding supports the view that puppies show patterns of attachment towards their owners. Extensive socialization had only a minor effect on the attachment behaviour in dog puppies, as the behaviour of pet dogs and hand-reared dogs was basically similar. However, we found a significant species-specific difference between wolves and dogs: both extensively socialized and pet dog puppies were more responsive to the owner than to an unfamiliar human participant, whereas extensively socialized wolves were not. Behavioural differences could be best explained by assuming that selective processes took place in the course of domestication (genetic changes) that are related to the attachment system of the dog. Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus MTAK: REAL (Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Animal Behaviour 70 6 1367 1375 |
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Using the Strange Situation Test originally developed for testing the mother-infant relationship in humans, we compared the attachment behaviour of extensively socialized (hand-reared) dog, Canis familiaris, and wolf, Canis lupus, puppies towards their human caregiver with that of pet dog puppies of the same age. The experiment was designed to study whether (1) dog puppies as young as 16 weeks show attachment to a human caregiver, (2) extensive socialization by human caregivers affects attachment behaviour of dog puppies and (3) evolutionary changes (in the form of species-specific differences between wolf and dog pups) affect the emergence of dog-human attachment. We found a characteristic selective responsiveness to the owner in young dogs, similar to that observed in adults. This finding supports the view that puppies show patterns of attachment towards their owners. Extensive socialization had only a minor effect on the attachment behaviour in dog puppies, as the behaviour of pet dogs and hand-reared dogs was basically similar. However, we found a significant species-specific difference between wolves and dogs: both extensively socialized and pet dog puppies were more responsive to the owner than to an unfamiliar human participant, whereas extensively socialized wolves were not. Behavioural differences could be best explained by assuming that selective processes took place in the course of domestication (genetic changes) that are related to the attachment system of the dog. |
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Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies |
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Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies |
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Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies |
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attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies |
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https://real.mtak.hu/3684/1/1075605.pdf Topál, József and Gácsi, Márta and Miklósi, Ádám and Virányi, Zsófia and Kubinyi, Enikő and Csányi, Vilmos (2005) Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies. Animal Behaviour, 70 (6). pp. 1367-1375. ISSN 0003-3472 |
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