- tomēr
- 3/13/19 02:07 am
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In a new study, researchers at the Wolf Science Center in Vienna, Austria demonstrated that human-raised wolves are just as successful as trained dogs at working with humans to solve cooperative tasks, suggesting that dogs' well-known ability to cooperate with humans did not arise purely from domestication.
The closely-related canines did exhibit a few distinct behaviors, however. For example, during the trials, dogs looked at their human partners twice as much as wolves, as if they were searching for guidance. Moreover, in conditions where the researchers had the human-animal duos solve two puzzles consecutively, wolves tended to move from one puzzle to the next without waiting for their human partners, while dogs almost always waited for their humans to make the first move.