Domestication has not made dogs cooperate more with each other compared to wolves
(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Following domestication, dogs should be more tolerant and cooperative with conspecifics and humans compared to wolves. But looking at both in more naturalistic living conditions, however, speaks for more cooperative behavior of wolves. Researchers at Vetmeduni Vienna now show that the wild ancestors are excelling their domesticated relatives in teamwork. In an experimental approach dogs but not wolves failed to cooperatively pull the two ends of a rope to obtain a piece of food. PNAS.
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