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SUBMITTER: Range F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879616 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Range Friederike F Kassis Alexandra A Taborsky Michael M Boada Mónica M Marshall-Pescini Sarah S
Scientific reports 20191126 1
In comparison to non-human animals, humans are highly flexible in cooperative tasks, which may be a result of their ability to understand a partner's role in such interactions. Here, we tested if wolves and dogs could flexibly adjust their behaviour according to whether they needed a partner to solve a cooperative loose string-pulling paradigm. First, we presented animals with a delay condition where a human partner was released after the subject so that the animal had to delay pulling the strin ...[more]