Critical Period in the Social Development of Dogs
- 31 March 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 133 (3457) , 1016-1017
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.133.3457.1016
Abstract
Litters of puppies were isolated, with the bitch, in fenced acre fields from 2 to 14 weeks of age. They were removed indoors at different ages, played with for a week, and returned to the field. The pups manifested an increasing tendency to withdraw from human beings after 5 weeks of age and unless socialization occurred before 14 weeks of age, withdrawal reactions from humans became so intense that normal relationships could not thereafter be establishedKeywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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