Man Meets Dog

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 200 páginas

In this wonderful book, the famous scientist and best-selling author, Konrad Lorenz, 'the man who talked with animals', enlightens and entertains us with his illustrated account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets. Displaying Lorenz's customary humanity and expert knowledge of animals, Man Meets Dog is also a deeply personal and entertaining account of his relationships with his own four-legged friends. With charming sketches on almost every page, Man Meets Dog offers a delightful insight into animal and human thinking and feeling. An essential companion for all lovers of dogs (and cats!).

 

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How it may have started
1
Two origins of fidelity
19
Canine personalities
27
Training
37
Canine customs
50
Master and dog
64
Dogs and children
69
Choosing a dog
76
What a pity he cant speakhe understands every word
125
Affections claim
134
Dog days
139
On feline play
150
Man and the cat
157
Animals that lie
163
Cat
169
The Animal with a conscience
177

An appeal to dog breeders
83
The truce
90
The fence
109
Much ado about a little dingo
115
Fidelity and death
188
INDEX
195
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Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist whose specialty, the biological origins of social behavior, is of major interest to psychologists. Lorenz pioneered in the direct study of animal behavior and was the founder of modern ethology (the study of animals in their natural surroundings). He received the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1973 for his research on instinctive behavior patterns and on imprinting---the process through which an animal very early in life acquires a social bond, usually with its parents, that enables it to become attached to other members of its own species. His major book, "On Aggression" (1963), was attacked by many anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, who maintained that Lorenz's claim that aggression is inborn means that it cannot be controlled. His supporters countered that Lorenz never stated that inborn traits could not be changed. Lorenz's work continues to play a key role in this contemporary version of the nature-nurture debate.

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