Familiarity with humans affect dogs' tendencies to follow human majority groups.

ABSTRACT: Recently, copying others' behaviour has attracted attention among researchers. It aids individuals in reducing uncertainty about the knowledge of the environment and helps them in acquiring an adaptive behaviour at a lower cost than by learning it by themselves. Among the copying strategies, conformity, which is the copying of behavioural decisions presented by the majority, has been well studied and reported in many animals, including humans. The previous study showed that dogs did not conform to their multiple conspecific individuals; however, dogs have evolved to increase their adaptability while living with humans, and it is plausible that dogs have selected appropriate behaviour according to the behaviour of humans. Therefore, we investigated which factors influenced the choice of dog

SUBMITTER: Nagasawa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7188858 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature