Directional preference in dogs: Laterality and "pull of the north"
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F17%3A74952" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/17:74952 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185243" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185243</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185243" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0185243</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Directional preference in dogs: Laterality and "pull of the north"
Original language description
Laterality is a well described phenomenon in domestic dogs. It was shown that dogs, under calm Earths magnetic field conditions, when marking their home ranges, tend to head about north- or southwards and display thus magnetic alignment. The question arises whether magnetic alignment might be affected or even compromised by laterality and vice versa. We tested the preference of dogs to choose between two dishes with snacks that were placed left and right, in different compass directions (north and east, east and south, south and west or west and north) in front of them. Some dogs were right- lateral, some left- lateral but most of them were ambilateral. There was a preference for the dish placed north compared to the one placed east of the dog (pull of the north). This effect was highly significant in small and medium- sized breeds but not in larger breeds, highly significant in females, in older dogs, in lateralized dogs but less significant or not significant in males, younger dogs, or ambilateral
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-21840S" target="_blank" >GA15-21840S: Magnetosensitivity in dogs and other animals: Magnetic alignment, cognitive maps and selective sensory attention</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS One
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1-11
UT code for WoS article
000411645100036
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85029813296