Research lab focused on understanding how domestication influences social behaviour and cognition by studying (mostly) dogs and wolves! 🐶🐺

Vienna, Austria
Joined May 2019
🚨🚨PhD position alert!! 🚨🚨We are looking for a doctoral student to carry out behavioural research on acoustic and visual communication in wolves and dogs @ Comparative Cognition Lab (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) and the @DomLabVienna (@VetmeduniVienna, Austria)
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And hopefully you didn’t miss the talk by @aberghaenel on prenatal stress effects yesterday!
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The @DomLabVienna is at the @ecbb2024! Go check the posters of our PhD students @UBlenkus on the personality of free-ranging dogs, @DarioStaric on size perception in dogs, and @SvenjaCapitain on dog-wolf differences during conflicts with humans!
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Do dogs smell our emotions? Help us discover the mistery! Seeking human female participants for sample collection. Where: Vetmeduni Vienna (Austria). For more info: [email protected] @VetmeduniVienna @KLIVVWien @univienna @BOKUvienna @ceu @wu_vienna
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🎊New paper out! When given a chance between cooperating with their owners for a better reward or working alone for a less nice treat, dogs will significantly work with their owners! And not just because they do follow their humans or the nice treat! 😎 rdcu.be/dGF3L
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A behavioural test battery to better understand free-ranging dogs – personality and all growkudos.com/publications/1… Cool coverage by @GrowKudos of our recent paper by @SvenjaCapitain @CimarelliG @UBlenkus @FriederikeRange @MarshallPescini! @PLOS @PLOSONE @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna
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🚨🚨If you are looking for a master thesis internship in a wonderful sunny country🌅, with an amazing team🤸, conducting cutting-edge science📹, where you get to "play" with dog puppies🐶🐶, this is for you! Continuously accepted applications, first available places in April 2024
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Interested in learning about hormones and canines? Student position opening at the @DomLabVienna to analyse free-ranging dogs' hair samples🪮🐶 The lab work will be based in Vienna @VetmeduniVienna. Start: March 2024. E-mail to [email protected] @KLIVVWien
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Want to learn more about dogs‘ learning and memory capabilities while they play video games? We have ⚡️1 research assistant⚡️ and ⚡️1 PhD⚡️ fully funded positions. Deadline: February 29th, 2024. Start date: asap 💪 🖥️🐕🐩🦮🎮 See tread for details.
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New paper out in @iScience_CP! We explored dog decision-making using economic games. Several dog dyads coordinated in the Assurance Game, likely because of simple mechanisms. By @MayteMartinezN1, #SelinaSchöndorfer, @DrLMRobinson, @DrSFBrosnan, @FriederikeRange. @KLIVVWien
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Do free-ranging dogs observe humans? And do they learn from them? e.g. when looking for food? Yes, yes, and yes! They do! 📷 Read our recently published paper on Current Zoology: Free-ranging dogs match a human’s preference in a foraging task academic.oup.com/cz/article/…
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by @FriederikeRange on social learning in dogs and wolves, by @tiagomonteiro on learning to learn in dogs and wolves! We still have our excellent PhD students presenting in the next days! Don’t miss the talks by @julianawwm @DarioStaric and Daniel Rivas Blanco!
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We hope you didn’t miss the talks by @aberghaenel on social tolerance in free-ranging dogs, by @CimarelliG on what is really social about social behaviour in free-ranging dogs, by @gwen_wirobski on dogs and wolves social behaviours,
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