Dogs Do Not Show Pro-social Preferences towards Humans.

ABSTRACT: Pro-social behaviors are defined as voluntary actions that benefit others. Comparative studies have mostly focused on investigating the presence of pro-sociality across species in an intraspecific context. Taken together, results on both primates and non-primate species indicate that reliance on cooperation may be at work in the selection and maintenance of pro-social sentiments. Dogs appear to be the ideal model when investigating a species' propensity for pro-sociality in an interspecific context because it has been suggested that as a consequence of domestication, they evolved an underlying temperament encouraging greater propensity to cooperate with human partners. In a recent study, using a food delivery paradigm, dogs were shown to preferentially express pro-social choices toward fam

SUBMITTER: Quervel-Chaumette M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047953 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature