TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard, Jules, 
TI  - Un ser maravilloso : : Una mirada científica al vínculo entre perros y humanos 
SN  - 9788408269328
AV  - SF407.D6 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Barcelona : 
PB  - Blackie books, 
KW  - Dogs--Research--History
KW  - Human-animal relationships
N2  - Una celebración de los perros, de nuestra mágica relación con ellos y de su contribución a la ciencia para hacer de este planeta un lugar mejor para todas las especies. Qué piensan realmente los perros de nosotros? Qué saben del mundo? Sienten emociones como las nuestras? Aman como nosotros? En casi todos los lugares del planeta donde hay humanos, hay perros. Intrusos caninos que entraron en nuestras vidas hace miles de años y que aún no se han marchado. Los perros son nuestros amigos, y lo son de una manera que la mayoría del resto de animales domésticos no lo son. Despreciados durante décadas como objeto de estudio, en los últimos años una nueva generación de científicos ha vuelto a fijarse en los perros. Para descubrir sus impresionantes capacidades cognitivas, era necesario un nuevo enfoque. Tratados con amor y compasión, los perros nos han revelado su mirada única sobre el mundo y han dado respuesta a algunas de las mayores preguntas de la vida. Un ser maravilloso es una celebración de las mentes de los perros y de los secretos que guardan. Y es una carta de amor a la ciencia, en los buenos y en los malos momentos.; [Resumen del editor]; 
"A celebration of dogs, the scientists who've lived alongside them, and how canines have been key to advancements in science for the betterment of all species. Almost everywhere there are humans on planet Earth, there are dogs. But what do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? What do they think of us? Since our alliance first began on the hunt and on the farm, our relationship with dogs has evolved considerably. And with domestic dog population rising twenty per cent in the last decade alone, it is a bond that will continue to evolve. In order to gauge where our relationship with dogs goes from here, author and zoologist Jules Howard takes a look at the historical paths we have trod together, and at the many scientists before him who turned their analytic eye on their own four-legged companions. Charles Darwin and his contemporaries toyed with dog sign language and made special puzzle boxes and elaborate sniff tests using old socks. Later, the same questions drove Pavlov and Pasteur to unspeakable cruelty in their search for knowledge. Since then, leagues of psychologists and animal behaviorists have built upon the study of dogs and their much-improved methods have fetched increasingly important results: dogs have episodic memory similar to ours; they recognize themselves as individuals; and, in addition to their expert sense of smell, dogs' noses can even detect thermal radiation. With the help of vets, ethologists, neurologists, historians and, naturally, his own dogs, Wonderdog reveals the study of dogs to be key in the advancement of compassion in scientific research, and crucial to making life on Earth better for all species"-- Provided by publisher
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