Dog cognition expert Dr Juliane Kaminski led the study, which is published in Scientific Reports.
«This study is a fabulous first go at experimentally comparing the ability of wolves and dogs to cooperate with their groupmates,» says Brian Hare,
a dog cognition expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved with the work.
Not exact matches
With us will be two
experts in the field of
dog cognition, Brian Hare, one of the world's foremost authorities on the canine mind and the author of the new book The Genius of
Dogs, and Laurie Santos, who has just opened a
dog lab at Yale University.
Co-author Dr Juliane Kaminski, an
expert in
dog cognition who is also at the university, said: «Little is known about the early domestication of wolves and it is likely to have been a complex evolutionary process.