Ontogenetic effects on gazing behaviour: a case study of kennel dogs (Labrador Retrievers) in the impossible task paradigm
Ontogenetic effects on gazing behaviour: a case study of kennel dogs (Labrador Retrievers) in the impossible task paradigm
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DOI：
10.1007/s10071-016-0958-5
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发表时间：
2016-05-01
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2.7
通讯作者：
Scandurra, Anna
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D'Aniello, Biagio;Scandurra, Anna
生活经验和生活条件会影响狗解决问题的策略和与人沟通的能力。本研究的目的是确定拉布拉多寻回犬生活在一个狗窝和那些生活在一个房子里的宠物之间的任何行为差异，并评估是否狗窝狗表现出偏好的社会行为，他们的照顾者相对于陌生人，当他们面临着一个无法解决的任务。九拉布拉多寻回犬生活在一个狗窝从出生和10拉布拉多寻回犬生活在一个家庭作为宠物进行了测试。实验程序包括三个“可解决”的任务，其中狗可以很容易地从容器中取出食物，然后是一个“不可解决”的任务，其中容器被密封锁定。两组狗花同样的时间与实验装置互动。养犬凝视人的时间更短，潜伏期比宠物狗更高;然而，在两组中，凝视陌生人与看护人之间没有显着的偏好。这些发现表明，当狗窝狗面临无法解决的问题时，它们不太容易使用人类指导的凝视行为，因为它们比宠物狗更少考虑人类来解决任务。
Life experiences and living conditions can influence the problem-solving strategies and the communicative abilities of dogs with humans. The goals of this study were to determine any behavioural differences between Labrador Retrievers living in a kennel and those living in a house as pets and to assess whether kennel dogs show preferences in social behaviours for their caretaker relative to a stranger when they are faced with an unsolvable task. Nine Labrador Retrievers living in a kennel from birth and ten Labrador Retrievers living in a family as pets were tested. The experimental procedure consisted of three "solvable" tasks in which the dogs could easily retrieve food from a container followed by an "unsolvable" task in which the container was hermetically locked. Dogs of both groups spent the same amount of time interacting with the experimental apparatus. Kennel dogs gazed towards people for less time and with higher latency than pet dogs; however, there were no significant preferences in gazing towards the stranger versus the caretaker in both groups. These findings demonstrated that kennel dogs are less prone to use human-directed gazing behaviour when they are faced with an unsolvable problem, taking the humans into account to solve a task less than do the pet dogs.