Sentences with phrase «studying pack behavior»

Studying pack behavior with GPS is important because it could lead to a stronger, faster selection process for certain service dogs.

Not exact matches

Numerous studies show that limiting a dog's contact with people — or at the very least, with a «pack» — will cause them to display behaviors associated with mental illness.

Wenger wonders whether the state could research wolf behavior just as efficiently by studying the packs outside the wilderness.

The idea that dogs follow the pack leader first began to take shape in the 1920s when ethologists (biologists who study animal behavior) discovered pecking orders in chicken coops.

There is no such thing as love, joy, sadness, fear or any other kind of emotion... BF Skinner said it was irrelevant for the study and practice of training or behavior modification; nor is the concept of «pack» relevant, and operant conditioning advocates are leading a movement to contend that leadership and pack order do not exist in the dog world 3.

Wildlife biologist David Mech noted in his 2000 introduction to his study of wild wolves, «Attempting to apply information about the behavior of assemblages of unrelated captive wolves to the familial structure of natural packs has resulted in considerable confusion.

The preponderance of the evidence shown by these studies indicates that the implementation of training and / or behavior modification protocols predicated upon «dominance theory» and social structures («alpha,» or «leader of pack»), usage of physical or mental force, intimidation, coercion or fear are empirically less effective and often create as a consequence «fallout» behaviors — behaviors which may be dangerous to the human and animal involved.