Inverse Sex Effects on Performance of Domestic Dogs (Canis Familiaris) in a Repeated Problem-Solving Task.
The authors investigated differences between female and male pet dogs in physical cognition using an object manipulation task. Subjects (24 females and 23 males of different breeds) had to open a box in order to obtain a food reward during 3 consecutive trials, and latency times before success were...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Psychology Vol. 129; no. 1; pp. 84 - 88 |
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