The effect of domestication on post-conflict management: wolves reconcile while dogs avoid each other.

ABSTRACT: Highly cooperative social species are expected to engage in frequent reconciliation following conflicts in order to maintain pack cohesiveness and preserve future cooperation. By contrast, in social species with low reliance on cooperation, reconciliation is expected to be less frequent. Here, we investigate the pattern of reconciliation in four captive wolf packs and four captive dog packs. We provide evidence for reconciliation in captive wolves, which are highly dependent on cooperation between pack members, while domestic dogs, which rely on conspecific cooperation less than wolves, avoided interacting with their partners after conflicts. Occurrence, intensity, latency, duration and initiation of wolf reconciliations appeared to vary as a consequence of a compromise between the costs (

SUBMITTER: Cafazzo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083655 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature