The Domestic Dog

Author : Alexandra Horowitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642539947

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Domestic Dog Cognition and Behavior by Alexandra Horowitz Pdf

This book highlights the state of the field in the new, provocative line of research into the cognition and behavior of the domestic dog. Eleven chapters from leading researchers describe innovative methods from comparative psychology, ethology and behavioral biology, which are combined to create a more comprehensive picture of the behavior of Canis familiaris than ever before. Each of the book’s three parts highlights one of the perspectives relevant to providing a full understanding of the dog. Part I covers the perceptual abilities of dogs and the effect of interbreeding. Part II includes observational and experimental results from studies of social cognition – such as learning and social referencing – and physical cognition in canids, while Part III summarizes the work in the field to date, reviewing various conceptual and methodological approaches and testing anthropomorphisms with regard to dogs. The final chapter discusses the practical application of behavioral and cognitive results to promote animal welfare. This volume reflects a modern shift in science toward considering and studying domestic dogs for their own sake, not only insofar as they reflect back on human beings.

Author : James Serpell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521425379

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The Domestic Dog by James Serpell Pdf

A scientific analysis of dogs, their behaviour, and their relationships with humans.

Author : James Serpell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107024144

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The Domestic Dog by James Serpell Pdf

Second edition of a classic text on canine science and behavior, incorporating two decades of new evidence and discoveries.

Author : Stanley John Olsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canidae
ISBN : UOM:49015000334509

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Origins of the Domestic Dog by Stanley John Olsen Pdf

Author : Philip Howell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813936871

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At Home and Astray by Philip Howell Pdf

Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country’s social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about. Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the heart of the middle-class home in the nineteenth century. Dog breeding and showing proliferated at that time, and dog ownership increased considerably. At the same time, the dog was increasingly policed out of public space, the "stray" becoming the unloved counterpart of the household "pet." Howell shows how this redefinition of the dog’s place illuminates our understanding of modernity and the city. He also explores the fascinating process whereby the dog’s changing role was proposed, challenged, and confronted—and in the end conditionally accepted. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin, and subjects of inquiry ranging from vivisection and the policing of rabies to pet cemeteries, dog shelters, and the practice of walking the dog, At Home and Astray is a contribution not only to the history of animals but also to our understanding of the Victorian era and its legacies.

Author : Mary Renck Jalongo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319778457

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Children, Dogs and Education by Mary Renck Jalongo Pdf

This book brings together authoritative information about the child/dog bond as it is manifested with family dogs, visiting therapy dogs, and service dogs trained to assist children with disabilities. Despite the widely accepted view that participating in a dog’s care and interacting with dogs in behaviorally healthy ways is a route to becoming responsible and compassionate, research on this complex dynamic is difficult to design, time-consuming to collect, and challenging to analyze. This volume synthesizes theory, research, and practice, bringing all to bear upon child/dog interactions in homes, schools, libraries, and the community at large. Children, Dogs and Education serves as a handbook for a diverse group of adults who seek to build positive relationships between children and dogs—parents/families, professional dog trainers, teachers, librarians, mental health professionals, health care professionals, and university faculty. The study of interactions between human and nonhuman animals has captured the imagination of an international community of researchers from many different fields and professions. Even though dogs are ubiquitous in the lives of most children, studies of children’s interactions with dogs in families and communities are lacking. Most of the previous research on the human-canine bond has focused on adolescents and adults or, even when younger children are the focus, it has tended to rely on parents to speak for children. There are three features of this book that make it unique. First, it goes beyond exploring the child/dog bond to examine additional important issues, including: children’s concepts of responsible care, their ability to interpret dogs’ behavioral cues, and their ideas about canine behavioral issues/training. Second, unlike most other work to date, it represents children’s voices through cases, interviews, and drawings. Finally, the contributors to this edited work use their collective wisdom to draw educational implications and suggest direction in preparing the next generation of dog guardians.

Author : Patricia B. McConnell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501150159

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The Education of Will by Patricia B. McConnell Pdf

"An animal behaviorist recounts the story of how in order to help a troubled dog she was compelled to revisit painful memories about her own past in order to gain understanding into the impact of trauma on the brain, "--NoveList

Author : Clive D. L. Wynne
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781328543967

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Dog Is Love by Clive D. L. Wynne Pdf

A pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple trait--the capacity to love--is what makes dogs such perfect companions for humans, and to explain how we can better reciprocate their affection.

Author : Rebecca Rose Stanton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030493165

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The Disneyfication of Animals by Rebecca Rose Stanton Pdf

This book critically examines how Walt Disney Animation Studios has depicted – and sometimes failed to depict – different forms of harming and objectifying non-human animals in their films. Each chapter addresses a different form of animal harm and objectification through the theories of speciesism, romanticism, and the ‘collapse of compassion’ effect, from farming, hunting and fishing, to clothing, work, and entertainment. Stanton lucidly presents the dichotomy between depictions of higher order, anthropomorphised and neotonised animal characters and that of lower-order species, showing furthermore how these depictions are closely linked to changing social attitudes about acceptable forms of animal harm. An engaging and novel contribution to the field of Critical Animal Studies, this book explores the use of animals not only in Disney’s best known animated films such as 101 Dalmatians, but also lesser known features including Home on the Range and Fun and Fancy Free. A quantitative appendix supplying data on how often each animal species appears and the amount of times animal harm or objectification is depicted in over fifty films provides an invaluable resource and addition to scholars working in both Disney and animal studies.

Author : Brian Vesey-FitzGerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Dogs
ISBN : UOM:39015001531964

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The Domestic Dog: an Introduction to Its History by Brian Vesey-FitzGerald Pdf

Author : Elaine A. Ostrander
Publisher : CABI
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 1845939417

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Genetics of the Dog by Elaine A. Ostrander Pdf

Recognizing the significant advances made in the field of animal genetics in the ten years since the first edition of "The Genetics of the Dog", this new edition of the successful 2001 book provides a comprehensive update on the subject, along with new material on topics of current and growing interest. Existing chapters on essential topics such as immunogenetics, genetics of diseases, developmental genetics and the genetics of behaviour have been fully updated, while new authors report on the latest advances in areas such as genetic diversity of dog breeds, canine genomics, olfactor.

Author : Raymond Coppinger,Lorna Coppinger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226115631

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Dogs by Raymond Coppinger,Lorna Coppinger Pdf

Offering a scientifically informed perspective on canines and their relations with humans, two biologists take a close look at eight different types of dogs--household, village, livestock guarding, herding, sled pulling, pointing, retrieving and hound. 34 halftones.

Author : Douglas J. Brewer,Terence Clark,Adrian Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0856687049

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Dogs in Antiquity by Douglas J. Brewer,Terence Clark,Adrian Phillips Pdf

Unlike cats which have remained almost uniform in shape throughout their history dogs have developed into a myriad of different breeds, ranging from the diminutive Chihuahua to the massive Irish Wolfhound. This book traces the origins of the domestic dog from its first beginnings as a wolf and then explores how the varieties came about. When looking for the origins of breeds we concentrate on those areas from which we have the earliest and most complete information, notably Egypt and the Middle East, which saw the birth of the earliest urban civilisations. The direct successors to the rulers of Egypt and the Middle East were the Greeks and then the Romans to whom Europe owes so much of its thought, culture and material civilisation. It is to these ancient peoples, perhaps, that we owe the spread of so many breeds into such a wide area.

Author : Bryan David Cummins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 1594607206

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Our Debt to the Dog by Bryan David Cummins Pdf

Winner of the Dog Writers Association of America 2014 Book of the Year When Homo sapiens sapiens met Canis lupus lupus millennia ago, the result was Canis lupus familiaris, the domestic dog. Since that fateful encounter, the dog has become, arguably, humankind's greatest creation. The domestic dog is the most widely distributed species (other than ourselves) in the world, being found virtually wherever people live, and is also the most diversified of species, with literally hundreds of recognized breeds. While we have shaped the dog, it, too, has helped shape human history in innumerable ways. Our Debt to the Dog is a critical historical and cross-cultural examination, through the use of case studies, of this most improbable 15,000-year relationship and an exploration of how this relationship shaped the history of the world. It is also very much an apology to the dog because over the course of the partnership horrific acts were perpetrated against it intentionally and otherwise. Our Debt to the Dog enriches our understanding of the dog and extends our appreciation for the profound complexity of past and present human-canine relationships and the dog's contributions to our lives and our world. "[A] very thorough assessment of human-dog relationships ... The book is heavily researched, with detailed coverage, for example, of the mention of dogs in the Koran, statistics of how many dogs were recruited by both sides during WWII, and the problems caused by the demise of the Inuit Eskimo sled dogs and the subsequent response of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ... Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE

Author : Thammineni Pullaiah,Michael R. Ielmini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119607038

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Invasive Alien Species by Thammineni Pullaiah,Michael R. Ielmini Pdf

INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES Invasive Alien Species: Observations and Issues from Around the World Volume 1: Issues and Invasions in Africa Invasive alien species are spreading into new ecosystems each year. The impacts caused by these invaders can be swift and devastating. The topic of invasive alien species is large, complex, and globally significant at various scales, exacerbated by the globalization of world economies and increased trade and commerce that has overcome natural barriers to species movement. Invasive alien species threaten global food supplies, water quality and availability, and energy production and delivery. With the added risks associated with global climate change, the global homogenization of plants, animals, and microbes is a major factor in the decline in ecosystem health and ecosystem services worldwide. To counter this trend, there is a critical need to unify governments, cultures, and programs to improve cross-boundary coordination to effectively address the wide range of invasive alien species threats to the environment, economies, and to plant and animal health; particularly human health. This 4-volume work is the first to compile a set of useful material for key topics, to provide a better understanding of the overall global threat of invasive alien species and the diverse array of problems faced around the world, and assemble material that includes potential replicable solutions to overcome these threats. The books also highlight the threat posed by invasive alien species in terms of a global ‘call to action’. Since invasive species know no boundaries, it is our hope that by compiling material from different scientific and social perspectives around the world, and sharing knowledge and examples of a diverse array of associated topics, we can advance global awareness and improve unified national responses to the threat posed by invasive alien species.