The New York Times bestselling authors of The Genius of Dogs take us into their "Puppy Kindergarten" at Duke University, a center to study how puppies develop, to show us what goes in to raising a great dog.
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"A firehose of knowledge suffused with levity and charm."-Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog
What does it take to raise a great dog? This was the question that husband-and-wife team Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods hoped to answer when they enrolled one hundred and one puppies in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten. With the help of a retired service dog named Congo, Brian, Vanessa, and their team set out to understand the secrets of the puppy mind: What factors might predict whether a puppy will grow up to change someone's life?
Never has cuteness been so cutting edge. Applying the same games that psychologists use when exploring the development of young children, Hare and Woods uncover what happens in a puppy's mind during their final stage of rapid brain development. Follow the adventures of Arthur, who makes friends with toy dinosaurs; Wisdom, the puppy genius; and Ying, who fails at cognitive games that even pigeons usually pass with flying colors. Along the way, learn about when puppies finally start to retain memories for longer than just a few seconds, or when they finally develop some self-control.
Raising dozens of puppies on a college campus means you get pretty good at answering big questions, such as: When do puppies sleep through the night? How do you stop them from eating poop? How can we help our puppies grow up to be the best dogs they can possibly be? Whether you are a new puppy parent or a perennial puppy lover, Puppy Kindergarten will answer every question you've ever had about puppies-and some you never thought to ask.
Es un hecho que en los últimos diez años, gracias a que los estudiosos del comportamiento animal han cambiado su foco de interés, de los primates, aves y cetáceos, al estudio de la inteligencia canina, hemos aprendido más sobre el comportamiento canino que en todo el siglo veinte. El tema de este libro es muy novedoso , la cognición canina. Es la primera vez que unos científicos condensan en un texto divulgativo todo lo descubierto en el tema del intelecto canino. Cómo la ciencia cognitiva ha llegado a entender la genialidad de los perros gracias a experimentos lúdicos, utilizando juguetes, tazas, pelotas y cubos. Pruebas que cualquier dueño podría hacer en su casa con su propio perro. Algunos de los descubrimientos que se exponen en las páginas que siguen sorprenderán incluso al más experimentado de los dueños: la gran cantidad de palabras que pueden entender los perros, su extraordinaria capacidad para ?leer? nuestras emociones y su máximo logro: haber llegado a interpretar nuestros gestos ¡tan bien! Si alguna vez se ha preguntado por qué su perro siempre se hace un lío con la correa para rodear una farola o un árbol o, si cuando está triste, su perro puede sentir empatía, si tienen los perros sentido de culpabilidad o de la justicia, en este libro encontrará las respuestas.
Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest pets.
In the past decade, we have learned more about how dogs think than in the last century. Breakthroughs in cognitive science, pioneered by Brian Hare have proven dogs have a kind of genius for getting along with people that is unique in the animal kingdom..
Brian Hare's stunning discovery is that when dogs domesticated themselves as early as 40,000 years ago they became far more like human infants than their wolf ancestors. Domestication gave dogs a whole new kind of social intelligence. This finding will change the way we think about dogs and dog training-indeed, the revolution has already begun.
Hare's seminal research has led him to work with every kind of dog from the tiniest shelter puppy to the exotic New Guinea singing dog, from his own childhood dog, Oreo, to the most fashionable schnoodle. The Genius of Dogs is nothing less than the definitive dog book of our time by the researcher who started a revolution.
