Behavior development in the dog: an interspecific analysis.
Young dogs were maintained in isolation from other dogs and under varying degrees of exposure to an alien species (mature rabbits). Parametric observations indicate that an interspecific social attachment develops during the initial hours of co-habitation. The later social interaction patterns of the dogs were influenced, but not irrevocably fixed, by the early cross-specific rearing experience.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D004285:Dogs; D011817:Rabbits; D012934:Social Isolation; D013016:Sound; D013045:Species Specificity