Kurt Kotrschal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kurt Kotrschal plays a role.
Articles
2010 Influence of socially involved hand-raising on life history and stress responses in greylag geese Human–Animal Interaction, Gácsi, Márta and Ádám Miklósi (eds.), pp. 380–395 | Article
Animals are hand-raised in a variety of contexts, including experimental research. This has been criticized frequently as producing animals with species-untypical behaviour. Here we compare life histories of 330 hand-raised and 631 gooseraised Greylag geese from a free-flying flock to determine… read more
2010 Relational factors affecting dog social attraction to human partners Human–Animal Interaction, Gácsi, Márta and Ádám Miklósi (eds.), pp. 482–503 | Article
We previously showed (Kotrschal et al., 2009) that owner personality and human–dog relationship predicted the performance of a human–dog dyad in a practical task. Based on the same data set we presently investigate the effects of individual and social factors on the social attraction of dogs to… read more