Dog Smart: Life-Changing Lessons in Canine Intelligence
$30.00
Subject: Pets
Author: Holland, Jennifer S
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Date Published: 05-2024
ISBN: 1426222718 | EAN: 9781426222719
BasicBinding: Hardcover
Features: Price on Product, Bibliography, Index, Illustrated | Pages: 304
Annotation: "Holland investigates what goes on in dogs' minds. Focusing on the ... abilities of 'working dogs,' [she] explains that guide dogs must exercise keen judgment in deciding when to follow or disobey their owners. For example, she recounts accompanying trainers as they taught dogs to refuse dangerous commands by praising them for resisting orders to walk off the edge of a subway platform. Dogs' excellent sense of smell lies at the heart of their intelligence, according to Holland, who cites studies that show canines can 'sense some substances at concentrations as low as parts per trillion' and describes how Auburn University's Canine Performance Science Center trains explosives detection dogs in a mock airport terminal. The author also explicates research on the ways in which dogs express themselves and communicate with each other, writing that canines growl differently based on the type of threat"
"Holland investigates what goes on in dogs' minds. Focusing on the ... abilities of 'working dogs,' [she] explains that guide dogs must exercise keen judgment in deciding when to follow or disobey their owners. For example, she recounts accompanying trainers as they taught dogs to refuse dangerous commands by praising them for resisting orders to walk off the edge of a subway platform. Dogs' excellent sense of smell lies at the heart of their intelligence, according to Holland, who cites studies that show canines can 'sense some substances at concentrations as low as parts per trillion' and describes how Auburn University's Canine Performance Science Center trains explosives detection dogs in a mock airport terminal. The author also explicates research on the ways in which dogs express themselves and communicate with each other, writing that canines growl differently based on the type of threat"
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