xiv, 404 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index Text in English
Contents:
1. The social dog : history and evolution / Sarah Marshall-Pescini and Juliane Kaminski 2. On the way to a better understanding of dog domestication : aggression and cooperativeness in dogs and wolves / Zsófia Virányi and Friederike Range 3. The social organisation of a population of free-ranging dogs in a suburban area of Rome : a reassessment of the effects of domestication on dogs' behaviour / Roberto Bonanni and Simona Cafazzo 4. Social behaviour among companion dogs with an emphasis on play / Barbara Smuts 5. Auditory communication in domestic dogs : vocal signalling in the extended social environment of a companion animal / Anna Magdalena Taylor, Victoria Frances Ratcliffe, Karen McComb, and David Reby 6. The immaterial cord : the dog-human attachment bond / Emanuela Prato Previde and Paola Valsecchi 7. The personality of dogs / Ádám Miklósi, Borbála Turcsán, and Enikő Kubinyi 8. When the bond goes wrong : problem behaviours in the social context / Daniel Mills, Emile van der Zee, and Helen Zulch 9. Social learning in dogs / Péter Pongrácz 10. What dogs understand about humans / Juliane Bräuer 11. Dogs' sensitivity to human ostensive cues : a unique adaptation? / József Topál, Anna Kis, and Katalin Oláh 12. Do dogs show an optimistic or pessimistic attitude to life? / Oliver Burman 13. Wagging to the right or to the left : lateralisation and what it tells of the dog's social brain / Marcello Siniscalchi and Angelo Quaranta
