You talkin’ to me? Functional breed selection may have fundamentally influenced dogs’ sensitivity to human verbal communicative cues
Our study provides the first indication that functional breed selection had a significant impact on dogs' sensitivity to ostensive human communication, which, apart from being crucially important for social learning from humans, until now was considered as a uniformly present heritage of domestication in dogs.
Authors
- Péter Pongrácz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5126-299X)
- Petra Dobos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4615-5181)
Institutions
- Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Biology
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01983-1
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.95
Funders
- Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
- Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
- Innovációs és Technológiai Minisztérium
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office