Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls

Affiliations

Fanni Lehoczki: Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University
Attila Andics: Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University
Arik Kershenbaum: Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Enikő Kubinyi: Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University
Daniela Passilongo: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari
Holly Root-Gutteridge: Animal Behaviour, Cognition and Welfare Group, Department of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln
Friederike Range: Domestication Lab, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
Vicente Palacios Sánchez: ARCA, People and Nature, SL
Lori Schmidt: International Wolf Center
Simon W. Townsend: Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Stuart K. Watson: Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
Tamás Faragó: Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University

Abstract

Domestic dog breeds lose the wolf-like vocal and behavioural responses connected to howling as they become more genetically distant from wolves.