Farm animal welfare is a major concern for society and food production. To more accurately
evaluate animal farming in general and to avoid exposing farm animals to poor welfare …

An important question in the study of canine cognition is how dogs understand humans,
given that they show impressive abilities for interacting and communicating with us. In this …

Domestication is an important factor driving changes in animal cognition and behaviour. In
particular, the capacity of dogs to communicate in a referential and intentional way with …

Referential communication occurs when a sender elaborates its gestures to direct the
attention of a recipient to its role in pursuit of the desired goal, eg by pointing or showing an …

The ability to infer emotional states and their wider consequences requires the
establishment of relationships between the emotional display and subsequent actions …

Communication between dogs and humans is a topic of growing interest, and the
“unsolvable task” is a common method used to measure human-directed communication. In …

Behavioral synchronization is evolutionary adaptive, fostering social cohesion. In humans,
affiliation between partners is associated with a high level of behavioral synchronization; …

Dogs discriminate human direction of attention cues, such as body, gaze, head and eye
orientation, in several circumstances. Eye contact particularly seems to provide information …

One widely studied phenomenon in behavioral sciences is the ability of 2 individuals to
behave in a synchronous way, which has links with affiliative relationships and an adaptive …

Domestication is generally assumed to have resulted in enhanced communication abilities
between non-primate mammals and humans, although the number of species studied is …