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"An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the domestication of pigeons
Contributor(s):: Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
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"Fowle fowles"? The sacred pelican and the profane cormorant in early modern culture
Contributor(s):: De Ornellas, Kevin
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"Neither person nor beast": dogs in the burial practice of the iron Gates Mesolithic
Contributor(s):: Radovanovic, Ivana
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"She's a dog at the end of the day": guide dog owners' perspectives on the behaviour of their guide dog
| Contributor(s):: Craigon, P. J., Hobson-West, P., England, G. C. W., Whelan, C.
A guide dog is a domestic dog (Canis familiaris) that is specifically educated to provide mobility support to a blind or visually impaired owner. Current dog suitability assessments focus on behavioural traits, including: trainability, reactivity or attention to environmental stimuli, low...
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'Bamboo spine' in a migration period horse from Hungary
| Contributor(s):: Bartosiewicz, Laszlo
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'Emergent aliens' : on salmon, nature, and their enactment
| Contributor(s):: Lien, Marianne Elizabeth
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1,000 years added to history of domesticated horse
| Contributor(s):: Martin, Richard A.
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10 000 years "high on the hog": some remarks on the human-animal relationship
| Contributor(s):: Meyer, H.
The pig has a contradictory image. It is the symbol of luck, thrift, prosperity, or fertility. At the same time, it is identified with negative characteristics such as impurity (in a literal as well as a figurative sense), lechery, falseness, and craving for power. Although the pig is honored as...
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A 'long-fuse domestication' of the horse? Tooth shape suggests explosive change in modern breeds compared to extinct populations and living Przewalski horses
| Contributor(s):: Krish Seetah, Andrea Cardini, Graeme Barker
Archaeological and molecular data suggest that horses were domesticated comparatively recently, the genetic evidence indicating that this was from several maternal haplotypes but only a single paternal one. However, although central to our understanding of how humans and environmental conditions...
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A biometric re-evaluation of recent claims for early Upper Palaeolithic wolf domestication in Eurasia
| Contributor(s):: Boudadi-Maligne, Myriam, Escarguel, Gilles
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A case for a naturalistic perspective
| Contributor(s):: Paxton, D. W.
This paper continues the debate on a unifying theory of the human-companion animal bond, begun in the first volume of Anthrozoos by Kidd and Kidd (1987:140-57). Research is cited in which the relationship between people and the dog is the case study. It is argued that the animal-animal model may...
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A case for a naturalistic perspective: response to Lawrence and Bekoff
| Contributor(s):: Paxton, D. W.
The author responds to commentaries on his original paper noting that "The paper is about questions, not answers. The orthodoxanswer in urban animal management — responsible pet ownership — is really the target of the naturalistic perspective. The paper requests urban authorities to always ask...
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A comparison of pet and purpose-bred research dog ( Canis familiaris) performance on human-guided object-choice tasks
| Contributor(s):: Lazarowski, L., Dorman, D. C.
Several studies have shown that domestic dogs respond to human social cues such as pointing. Some experiments have shown that pet dogs outperformed wolves in following a momentary distal point. These findings have lent support to the hypothesis that domestication is responsible for domestic dogs'...
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A cultural history of animals
| Contributor(s):: Kalof, Linda, Pohl-Resl, Brigitte
A Cultural History of Animals is a multi-volume project on the history of human-animal relations from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers 4500 years of human-animal interaction.Volume 1: Antiquity to the Dark Ages (2500BC-1000AD)Volume 2: The Medieval Age (1000-1400)Volume...
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A dog's history of the world : canines and the domestication of humans
| Contributor(s):: Hobgood-Oster, Laura
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A dog's life among the Waisais; the world's most pampered pets are gentle as lambs to their masters but vicious beyond words toward strangers
| Contributor(s):: Guppy, Nicholas
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A geometric morphometric re-evaluation of the use of dental form to explore differences in horse (Equus caballus) populations and its potential zooarchaeological application
| Contributor(s):: Seetah, Krish
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A perfect harmony : the intertwining lives of animals and humans throughout history
| Contributor(s):: Caras, Roger A.
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A perfect harmony : the intertwining lives of animals and humans throughout history
| Contributor(s):: Caras, Roger A.
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A preliminary study on the role of plants and animals at Badigaon agicultural community :an ethno-bio-archaeological perspective
| Contributor(s):: Hoque, Seema