Psychology 489: Dog Behavior

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Gallery of dogs - feel free to contribute if you're in my class. Mail me.

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Other sites of interest

• If you're interested in cats, you might try the following web site
  • http://www.messybeast.com/intelligence.htm#world.
• National Geographic's Dog Whisperer site - check out the videos. Nice demonstration of dominance issues.
  • http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/dogwhisperer/
• Play bow examples
  • http://www.bozotheyellowlab.net/Images/Play%20Bow.JPG
  • http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/playbow.bmp
• Some researchers are using a robot to study dog behavior. And lest you think we're immune, the second link is for a site where they are using robots to study human social interaction.
  • http://www.csl.sony.fr/Research/Experiments/DogAIBO/Movie01.html
  • http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/videos.html
• Dr. Sophia Yin's web site - see the link on barking.
  • http://www.nerdbook.com/sophia/welcome.html
• Video of Rico in action (video link and explanation is at bottom)
  • http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0610rico.shtml
• A nice site on color vision by Dr. Neitz (he's also done work on canine color vision)
  • http://www.neitzvision.com/content/home.html
• A video on dog odor detection and an attempt to develop an electronic replacement
  • http://www.pbs.org/saf/1201/segments/1201-1.htm
• Dogs as disease detectors? Possibly...
  • http://www.workingdogs.com/vcepilepsy.htm
  • http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5183290/
• Beautiful illustration of the relative size of dog and human olfactory bulbs (click on the left-most links to highlight each bulb)
  • http://trc.ucdavis.edu/mjguinan/apc100/modules/Nervous/grosscns/comp0/comp.html
• Dog jokes...
  • http://www.llewellynsecurity.com/noframes/nfjokes.htm
  • http://pupster.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/dog-translator.jpg
  • http://z.hubpages.com/u/209782_f520.jpg
• Behavioral genetics
  • http://www.animalbehavioronline.com/dogbehavioralgenetics.html
  • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heredity/
• Video of dog/human interaction
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJu2Qkbxes0
• Boston Globe article on the move to study dogs
  • http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/04/13/for_hints_on_humans_scientists_study_dogs_thinking/?page=full
• Suggestions for more? Please email me: meyoung@siu.edu.

For last lecture on various species: Resources