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Lehoczki, Fanni, Andics, Attila, Kershenbaum, Arik, Kubinyi, Enikő, Passilongo, Daniela, Root-Gutteridge, Holly, Range, Friederike, Sánchez, Vicente Palacios, Schmidt, Lori, Townsend, Simon W., Watson, Stuart K. and Faragó, Tamás (2023) Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls. Communications Biology, 6 (1). 129. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04450-9 ISSN 2399-3642.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04450-9
Abstract
Domestication dramatically changes behaviour, including communication, as seen in the case of dogs (Canis familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus). We tested the hypothesis that domestication may affect an ancient, shared communication form of canids, the howling which seems to have higher individual variation in dogs: the perception and usage of howls may be affected by the genetic relatedness of the breeds to their last common ancestor with wolves (‘root distance’) and by other individual features like age, sex, and reproductive status. We exposed 68 purebred dogs to wolf howl playbacks and recorded their responses. We identified an interaction between root distance and age on the dogs’ vocal and behavioural responses: older dogs from more ancient breeds responded longer with howls and showed more stress behaviours. Our results suggest that domestication impacts vocal behaviour significantly: disintegrating howling, a central, species-specific communication form of canids and gradually eradicating it from dogs’ repertoire.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology S Agriculture > SF Animal culture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Domestication -- Genetic aspects, Domestic animals, Domestic animals -- Behavior , Domestic animals -- Evolution , Dogs -- Vocalization , Animal communication -- Psychological aspects, Social behavior in animals, Wolves -- Behavior | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Communications Biology | ||||||
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2399-3642 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 6 February 2023 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 129 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s42003-023-04450-9 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 March 2023 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 March 2023 |
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