Dogs' expectation about signalers' body size by virtue of their growls.
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SUBMITTER: Farago T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3002277 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
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Dogs' expectation about signalers' body size by virtue of their growls.
Faragó Tamás T Pongrácz Péter P Miklósi Adám A Huber Ludwig L Virányi Zsófia Z Range Friederike F
PloS one 20101215 12
Several studies suggest that dogs, as well as primates, utilize a mental representation of the signaler after hearing its vocalization and can match this representation with other features provided by the visual modality. Recently it was found that a dogs' growl is context specific and contains information about the caller's body size. Whether dogs can use the encoded information is as yet unclear. In this experiment, we tested whether dogs can assess the size of another dog if they hear an agon ...[more]
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