Social learning from humans or conspecifics: differences and similarities between wolves and dogs

Frontiers in Psychology
Friederike Range, Zsófia Virányi

Abstract

Most domestication hypotheses propose that dogs have been selected for enhanced communication and interactions with humans, including learning socially from human demonstrators. However, to what extent these skills are newly derived and to what extent they originate from wolf-wolf interactions is unclear. In order to test for the possible origins of dog social cognition, we need to compare the interactions of wolves and dogs with humans and with conspecifics. Here, we tested identically raised and kept juvenile wolves and dogs in a social learning task with human and conspecific demonstrators. Using a local enhancement task, we found that both wolves and dogs benefitted from a demonstration independent of the demonstrator species in comparison to a control, no demonstration condition. Interestingly, if the demonstrator only pretended to hide food at the target location, wolves and dogs reacted differently: while dogs differentiated between this without-food and with-food demonstration independent of the demonstrator species, wolves only did so in case of human demonstrators. We attribute this finding to wolves being more attentive toward behavioral details of the conspecific models than the dogs: although the demonstrator dogs ...Continue Reading

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Dec 6, 2014·Frontiers in Psychology·Friederike RangeZsófia Virányi
Feb 3, 2015·Frontiers in Psychology·Friederike Range, Zsófia Virányi
Sep 8, 2016·Frontiers in Psychology·Sarah Marshall-PesciniFriederike Range
Sep 10, 2016·PloS One·Angélica da Silva VasconcellosKurt Kotrschal
May 12, 2016·PloS One·Jennifer L EsslerFriederike Range
Apr 20, 2017·Scientific Reports·Sarah Marshall-PesciniFriederike Range
Jul 7, 2017·Royal Society Open Science·Dorottya Júlia UjfalussyZsófia Virányi
Apr 24, 2015·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Friederike RangeZsófia Virányi
May 26, 2017·Animal Cognition·Claudia FugazzaLieta Marinelli
Sep 17, 2017·Scientific Reports·Michelle LampeZsófia Virányi
Mar 9, 2019·Scientific Reports·Friederike RangeZsófia Virányi
Aug 7, 2019·Animal Cognition·Andrea SommeseLuděk Bartoš
Jul 7, 2018·Scientific Reports·Claudia FugazzaÁdám Miklósi
Mar 3, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Dor ShiltonEva Jablonka
Feb 26, 2015·PloS One·Sarah Marshall-PesciniFriederike Range
Aug 26, 2018·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Anna ScandurraBiagio D'Aniello
Aug 15, 2018·Learning & Behavior·Jim McGetrick, Friederike Range
Nov 28, 2019·Scientific Reports·Friederike RangeSarah Marshall-Pescini
Sep 9, 2020·Scientific Reports·Dorottya Júlia UjfalussyEnikő Kubinyi
May 13, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Martina LazzaroniSarah Marshall-Pescini
Nov 23, 2019·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Giada Cordoni, Elisabetta Palagi
Dec 18, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Hillary Jean-JosephKurt Kotrschal
Jan 5, 2021·Frontiers in Psychology·Judith Benz-SchwarzburgLudwig Huber

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