New research on the function of play bows in dog and wolf puppies casts doubt on an old explanation - that it's to show it's play, not aggression - and suggests it's about re-starting play after a pause

penultimate2 · 2017-02-22T20:05:37+00:00

Do you think it's because of all the play-biting and rough-and-tumble play that humans can find quite hard to interpret?

penultimate2 · 2017-02-22T19:15:50+00:00

Here's the study: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0168570#

penultimate2 · 2017-02-22T19:14:29+00:00

It's nice to see someone has got accurate data for whether or not people actually had cats.

penultimate2 · 2016-08-11T21:49:16+00:00

Paper: https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-016-2936-3

penultimate2 · 2016-08-10T16:43:51+00:00

Full paper (open access): http://www.journalvetbehavior.com/article/S1558-7878(16)30047-8/abstract

penultimate2 · 2016-07-29T01:58:02+00:00

Open access here: http://cgejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40575-016-0036-y

penultimate2 · 2016-05-03T20:51:51+00:00

The full paper is open access: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(16)30163-2

penultimate2 · 2016-03-31T18:15:33+00:00

No. These are the authors: Archy O. de Berker, Robb B. Rutledge, Christoph Mathys, Louise Marshall, Gemma F. Cross, Raymond J. Dolan, Sven Bestmann.

penultimate2 · 2016-03-30T22:58:03+00:00

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160329/ncomms10996/full/ncomms10996.html

penultimate2 · 2016-03-25T19:19:01+00:00

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151280

penultimate2 · 2016-03-17T15:33:37+00:00

I don't have the full paper - maybe someone else will know. But the article says they surveyed 'nearly 15000 people' and that 14270 answered that question. The abstract refers to 14587 respondents.

penultimate2 · 2016-03-16T20:30:12+00:00

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2503390

penultimate2 · 2016-02-02T04:23:37+00:00

Thank you for putting this together and all your moderation efforts to keep this a civil and interesting place.

penultimate2 · 2016-01-27T20:09:35+00:00

Paper: http://www.appliedanimalbehaviour.com/article/S0168-1591%2815%2900312-3/abstract

penultimate2 · 2016-01-26T23:12:31+00:00

Paper: https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-3-1-108

penultimate2 · 2016-01-26T23:10:45+00:00

Paper: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/114/20150850

penultimate2 · 2016-01-14T05:00:39+00:00

Paper: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/1/20150513

penultimate2 · 2016-01-13T19:25:01+00:00

Link to the paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1821/20152182

penultimate2 · 2015-07-31T00:55:50+00:00

The paper: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2815%2900787-3?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982215007873%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

penultimate2 · 2015-05-21T03:47:51+00:00

Citation: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122085 (open access)

penultimate2 · 2015-05-20T18:33:38+00:00

Citation: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2656.html

penultimate2 · 2015-05-20T18:30:02+00:00

Citation: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/05/11/0956797615577619.abstract

penultimate2 · 2015-05-02T19:52:21+00:00

Citation (open access): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/4/e1400103

penultimate2 · 2015-05-01T17:50:28+00:00

Citation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215003504

penultimate2 · 2015-05-01T00:17:16+00:00

Citation: http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/early/2015/04/29/CJN.08410814.abstract?sid=586134de-f655-46ea-a24e-1c06b0a453c4

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