Emily E Bray, Margaret E Gruen, Gitanjali E Gnanadesikan, Daniel J Horschler, Kerinne M Levy, Brenda S Kennedy, Brian A Hare, Evan L MacLean
To characterize the early ontogeny of dog cognition, we tested 168 domestic dog, Canis familiaris , puppies (97 females, 71 males; mean age = 9.2 weeks) in a novel test battery based on previous tasks developed and employed with adolescent and adult dogs. Our sample consisted of Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers and Labrador × golden retriever crosses from 65 different litters at Canine Companions for Independence, an organization that breeds, trains and places assistance dogs for people with disabilities...
August 2020: Animal Behaviour