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Societies of wolves and free-ranging dogs /
"Wolves are charismatic emblems of wilderness. Dogs, which descended from wolves, are models of urbanity. Do free-ranging dogs revert to pack living or are their societies only reminiscent of a wolfish heritage? Focusing on behavioral ecology, this is the first book to assess societies of both...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. What makes a wolf
- Wolves in the beginning
- Modern wolves
- Great Lakes wolf
- Red wolf
- Eastern coyote
- The color of wolves
- 2. What makes a dog
- Domestication
- Early dogs
- Coydogs and wolfdogs
- Dingoes
- 3. Visual and tactile communication
- Metaphors and semiotics
- Signal and response
- Agonistic behavior
- The physiological stress response
- Visual and tactile signaling
- 4. Olfactory and vocal communication
- Odor and pheromone reception
- Scent-marking
- Vocalization
- Wolf howls
- 5. Space
- Use of space
- Territorial disputes
- Pack dynamics
- Natural controls on wolf populations
- Painting the social fence
- Space use by free-ranging dogs
- 6. Foraging
- Wolves as predators
- Competitors of wolves
- Wolves hunting and scavenging
- Prey selection by wolves
- The dilemma of cooperative hunting
- Foraging by free-ranging dogs
- 7. Courtship and conception
- The reproductive cycle (pt. 1)
- Courtship in owned dogs
- Courtship in free-ranging dogs
- courtship in wolves
- 8. Reproduction and parenting
- The reproductive cycle (pt. 2)
- Wolf dens and rendezvous sites
- Dens and rendezvous sites of free-ranging dogs
- Wolf litters
- Free-ranging dog litters
- Helping and the altruism dilemma
- 9. Socialization
- The socialization sequence
- Play and bonding
- Confinement and social order in wolves
- Dominance in free-ranging dogs
- Leadership
- Dingoes.