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| Title |
Dogs' Expectation about Signalers' Body Size by Virtue of Their Growls
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0015175 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tamás Faragó, Péter Pongrácz, Ádám Miklósi, Ludwig Huber, Zsófia Virányi, Friederike Range |
| Abstract |
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 agonistic growl paired with simultaneous video projection of two dog pictures. One of them matched the size of the growling dog, while the other one was either 30% larger or smaller. In control groups, noise, cat pictures or projections of geometric shapes (triangles) were used. The results showed that dogs look sooner and longer at the dog picture matching the size of the caller. No such preference was found with any of the control stimuli, suggesting that dogs have a mental representation of the caller when hearing its vocalization. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Australia | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 152 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Austria | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Hungary | 2 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 139 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 29 | 19% |
| Researcher | 24 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 22 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 60 | 39% |
| Psychology | 27 | 18% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 11 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Unknown | 36 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 November 2021.
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