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How Dogs work How Dogs Work raymonD Coppinger mark Feinstein Foreword by Gordon M. Burghardt THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS : CHICAGO AND LONDON RAYMOND COPPINGER is professor emeritus of biology at Hampshire College. His books include Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, also published by the University of Chicago Press. MARK FEINSTEIN is professor of cognitive science at Hampshire College. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago Foreword © 2015 by Gordon M. Burghardt All rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 isBn- 13: 978–0- 226–12813– 9 (cloth) isBn- 13: 978–0- 226–32270– 4 (e- book) Doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226322704.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Coppinger, Raymond, author. How dogs work / Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-226-12813-9 (cloth : alkaline paper) — isBn 978-0-226-32270-4 (ebook) 1. Dogs—Behavior. 2. Canis—Behavior. I. Feinstein, Mark H., author. II. Title. ql737.C22C64 2015 636.7—dc23 2015015809 ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). IN MEMORY OF ERICH KLINGHAMMER, THE FOUNDER OF WOLF PARK CONTENTS FOREWORD by Gordon M. Burghardt : ix 1. WHAT ARE DOGS LIKE? : 1 2. WHAT MAKES ETHOLOGISTS TICK? : 17 3. THE SHAPE OF A DOG IS WHAT MAKES IT TICK : 37 4. THE SHAPE OF BEHAVIOR : 55 5. THE RULES OF FORAGING : 77 6. INTRINSIC BEHAVIOR : 97 7. ACCOMMODATION AND BEHAVIOR : 113 8. EMERGENT BEHAVIOR : 135 9. PLAY : 159 10. MINDING THE DOG : 185 A LAST WORD : 211 : vii Acknowledgments : 217 References : 219 Index : 229 Plates follow page 84. viii : CONTENTS FOREWORD It is a great pleasure for me to compose the foreword to this book by Ray Coppinger and Mark Feinstein devoted to the ethology of dogs. It is doubly a pleasure as the book is dedicated to both Wolf Park in Indi- ana and the late Dr. Erich Klinghammer, who founded it. Erich Kling- hammer was one of my teachers, a member of my dissertation commit- tee at the University of Chicago and, subsequently, a long- time friend. Although he began his career by carrying out some of the first studies on sexual imprinting in altricial bird species, he always loved dogs, especially German shepherds. It was his dog Gitta who, over fifty years ago, found a pregnant garter snake on his research “farm” in north- ern Indiana. Knowing my interest in snakes, Erich gave her to me; the babies born to this snake led to my first snake research, resulted in my dissertation topic, and were a key factor in my subsequent career in ser- pentine ethology. Both Erich and Gitta were acknowledged in the first publication (Burghardt 1966); that Gitta was a dog seemed irrelevant to mention. So dogs and Erich greatly influenced my career. When Erich developed serious allergies to birds, he changed his scholarly interest to the behavior of dogs and other canids, advocated for proper captive conditions for wolves, championed wolf conservation, and promoted ethology by translating important books from German. Ray Coppinger, first author of this book, I have known for almost as long, and with great fondness, since his sense of humor broke the tension of perhaps the most embarrassing event in my life as a scien- tist. This occurred at an American Association for the Advancement of : ix
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