Submission & affiliation

Further thoughts on Cafazzo et al. via Rudolph Schenkel

So, in the last post, I was chewing over the findings of Cafazzo and colleagues from 2010, often (well…) cited as a solid source on hierarchies in dogs.

They concluded that aggression over food and mates correlated with hierarchies, but that there were better indicators of these hierarchies than aggression. According to the authors, ‘submissive-affiliat…