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Inside of a Dog_ What Dogs See, Smell, and Know - Alexandra Horowitz [132]

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to dogs, 290–91

joint, 58

manipulating attention, 143, 155–58

to our behavior, 140–41

in play, 152–53, 199–205

"psychic powers" of animals, 163–72

to sounds around you, 251–52

stages in child development, 141–44

types of, 139, 142–44

see also attention-getter; eye contact

attention-getter

bark, 98, 105–8, 152, 153, 154, 171

bump, 152

exaggerated retreat, 203

in-your-face, 152, 200, 203

kinds of, 152–53, 199–200

matching level of inattention, 203

pawing, 152

used in play, 152–53, 199–205

audition

auditory attention, 139

changes in, 169

importance of, 122

range of hearing in dogs, 92, 93–94

range of hearing in humans, 21–22, 23–24, 92–94

in rats, 28

ultrasonic sounds, 91, 93, 241–43

see also sounds made

Australian shepherd, 53

autism

lack of eye contact in, 140, 192

theory of mind and, 192

use of dogs to read behavior, 162 autobiographies, pet, 119, 225–27

baboons

animal cognition research on, 4

eyebrows raised in display, 16

baby talk, 95–96

ball dogs, 126–32, 154, 287

barks

as communication, 98, 105–8, 152, 153, 154, 171

contagious, 108

decibels of, 105

frequencies of, 105–6, 107–8

types of, 98–99, 100, 106–8

see also attention-getter; sounds made

basenji, 50

basset hound, 77–78

bathing dogs, 85–86, 292

baths, 19, 86

bats

echolocation of, 91, 241–43

flehmen, 74

beagle, 49, 71, 72

bears, birth of, 64–65

beastomorphism, 60

beds

dog, 25–26, 86

human, 25–26

bees, 91, 215

begging

in dogs, 155–56

experimental trials using, 155–57

behavioral science

animal cognition research in, 4–5, 13–14, 27–28, 102n operant conditioning and, 10–11, 189–90

Bekoff, Marc, 237–38 Belgian Tervuren, 193–95

belly, exposing, 110

Belyaev, Dmitry, 35–37

big-brain hypothesis, 8–9, 44

bike-chasing, 170–71

biophilia hypothesis (Wilson), 265n

bird dogs, 43, 49, 54

biting

games based on, 42

meanings of, 62–63

muzzle biting, 18–19

bitter taste, 30 bladders, 60–61, 83, 115, 116

blind persons, dog companions for, 43, 134–35, 152, 162, 274

bloodhound, olfaction in tracking, 77–78

blue tit, milk-bottle raiding of, 185

see also imitation

body language, 91, 108–14, 118

bonding

components of, 266–79

cross-species, 259–82

dog-human, 259–82

of domesticated silver foxes, 37

greeting ritual and, 29, 30–31, 263–64, 271–73

impact of bond effect, 279–82

mutual responsiveness in, 263–66, 274–79

pair bond, 260–61

proximate/ultimate explanations for, 265–66

temporal patterns and, 274–79

touch and, 266–71, 293

bonobos, 4–5, 145n

border collie, 48, 96–97, 98

boredom, 216–17, 288–89

see also time, experience of

Bouvier des Flandres, 50

boxer, 51

brain

anatomy of olfaction and, 71–75

anatomy of vision and, 125, 126–32

big-brain hypothesis, 8–9, 44

breathing sounds, 103

breeds, dog, 47–55

American Kennel Club, 49, 50

ancient, 48–49

categories of, 49–52

characteristic traits of, 40, 42n, 47–52, 112, 114, 127–28, 287

closed gene pool of, 50–52

development of, 40, 48–49

differences in development, 47–48

"dog fancy" shows, 49n

genomes of, 50–52

modern, 49–50

mutts versus, 294

physical range, 43–44

purebred, 49–50, 51, 71

selective breeding, 40

threshold differences between, 52–55

briard, 50

bulldog, 114

bull terrier, 5

bumblebees, use of time, 215

bumps, 152

butyric acid, 20–21, 79

caching behavior, 210n, 226, 227, 227n

Cairn terrier, 50

camouflage, 123

cancer, detection of, 81–82

see also olfaction

Canidae family, 34, 38, 82–84

cats

attention in, 145

fetch and, 277

flehmen, 74

Cavalier King Charles spaniel, 114

character-reading, 168–70

chasing behaviors, 169–71

chatter, 103

chickadees, 185

see also imitation

chickens, spatial preferences of, 16–17

Chihuahua, 1–2, 124, 205–6

children

attention-getting in, 152, 153, 234

autism and, 140, 162, 192

developmental stages, 43, 141–44, 146, 162–63

epileptic seizure prediction in, 82n

fear of strange dogs and, 79–80

gaze bias of, 148n

guilt and, 230, 234

hearing abilities of, 93n

overimitation by, 188, 188n

rescue dogs and, 237–39

theory of mind, 192–93,

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