Dog/ Wolf Classification
Dogs in this group hunt a quarry by following it.
What are hounds?
This kind of dog vocalization is used in the following contexts: greeting, frustration, active submission, and attention seeking.
What is a whine?
These mammals are also able to identify frogs by their calls.
What are bats?
Frogs do not have this type of ear structure that humans have.
What is the outer ear?
The Tungara frog adds these to 'whines' to make their songs more complex?
What are chucks?
Dogs in this group point to a quarry when they find it.
What are gundogs?
During this period of development, wolf pups start howling and accompanying adult conspecifics on hunts.
What is the juvenile phase?
During this period of development, domestic dogs leave their mother and littermates to move in with a human family for a second socialization period.
What is the socialization phase?
Frogs produce sound via airflow through this structure.
What is the larynx?
Frogs also use _________ and visual cues to communicate with each other.
What is olfactory?
Dogs in this group have the ability to go into underground passages after prey.
What are terriers?
During this period of wolf and dog development, the eyes and ear-channels begin to open (14-28 days).
What is the transition period?
This theory of dog domestication posits that dogs’ selection (evolution) on the trait of tameness paved the way for further social cognitive evolution and therefore the sophisticated skills are a by-product of the initial selection for tameness.
What is the by-product hypothesis?
Frogs' ears are _______ to optimally process the sounds of conspecifics.
What is tuned?
Areas where two or more signals do not co-occur.
What is allopatry?
Domesticated dogs are descended from wolves in this part of the world.
What is Central Asia?
With this research technique, a human experimenter hides food under one of several containers out of the dog's view, and the human then indicates the intended choice by using a social cue.
What is the object choice paradigm?
This theory of dog domestication posits that humans actively selected dogs for their ability to use human communication skills.
Near rushing streams, the odorrana tormota can produce and hear these types of sounds that are outside the range of most anurans.
What are ultrasonics?
Areas where two or more signals co-occur.
What is sympatry?
These dogs were not bred for any specific job or purpose.
What are utility dogs?
The aim of this research technique is for the dog to infer the location of an object that was removed from the container.
What is the invisible displacement task?
Dogs have lived with humans for how long?
What is 15,000 years?
These tympanic membranes are located just behind the frog's eyes.
What are eardrums?
The movement of an organism in relation to a sound source.
What is phonotaxis?