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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
41
Citations
6441
World Ranking
1069
National Ranking
11

Best Publications

  • Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and the question of cumulative culture: an experimental approach.

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Andrew Whiten

  • Dogs' Social Referencing towards Owners and Strangers

    Isabella Merola;Emanuela Prato-Previde;Sarah Marshall-Pescini

  • Agility and search and rescue training differently affects pet dogs' behaviour in socio-cognitive tasks

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Chiara Passalacqua;Shanis Barnard;Paola Valsecchi

  • Social referencing in dog-owner dyads?

    I. Merola;E. Prato-Previde;S. Marshall-Pescini

  • Does training make you smarter? The effects of training on dogs' performance (Canis familiaris) in a problem solving task.

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Paola Valsecchi;Irena Petak;Pier Attilio Accorsi

  • Is your choice my choice? The owners' effect on pet dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) performance in a food choice task.

    E. Prato-Previde;S. Marshall-Pescini;P. Valsecchi

  • Importance of a species’ socioecology: Wolves outperform dogs in a conspecific cooperation task

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Jonas F. L. Schwarz;Inga Kostelnik;Zsófia Virányi

  • Human-directed gazing behaviour in puppies and adult dogs, Canis lupus familiaris

    Chiara Passalacqua;Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Shanis Barnard;Gabriella Lakatos

  • The Effect of Domestication on Inhibitory Control: Wolves and Dogs Compared

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Zsófia Virányi;Friederike Range

  • Dogs’ comprehension of referential emotional expressions: familiar people and familiar emotions are easier

    I. Merola;E. Prato-Previde;M. Lazzaroni;S. Marshall-Pescini

  • Social referencing and cat–human communication

    Isabella Merola;Isabella Merola;M. Lazzaroni;S. Marshall-Pescini;S. Marshall-Pescini;E. Prato-Previde

  • Cultural panthropology

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  • Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human ‘self-domestication’

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  • Measures of Dogs' Inhibitory Control Abilities Do Not Correlate across Tasks.

    Désirée Brucks;Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Lisa Jessica Wallis;Lisa Jessica Wallis;Ludwig Huber

  • Integrating social ecology in explanations of wolf–dog behavioral differences

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Simona Cafazzo;Zsófia Virányi;Friederike Range

  • Social learning of nut-cracking behavior in East African sanctuary-living chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Andrew Whiten

  • Social eavesdropping in the domestic dog

    S. Marshall-Pescini;C. Passalacqua;A. Ferrario;P. Valsecchi

  • Critical issues in experimental studies of prosociality in non-human species.

    S. Marshall-Pescini;R. Dale;M. Quervel-Chaumette;F. Range

  • Gaze alternation in dogs and toddlers in an unsolvable task: evidence of an audience effect

    S. Marshall-Pescini;E. Colombo;C. Passalacqua;I. Merola

  • The influence of social relationship on food tolerance in wolves and dogs.

    Rachel Dale;Friederike Range;Laura Stott;Kurt Kotrschal

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