Domestication Lab Vienna

Urban foxes initially show heightened fear toward novel objects but adjust it over time, ending up with slightly reduced fear responses compared to rural foxes at the end of the experiment. 🦊 doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoa… @MarshallPescini @FriederikeRange @DomLabVienna

Free-ranging dogs🐶can use heterospecific social information to make decisions during a foraging task - behavioural flexibility can help navigate a novel social information scenario. doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoa……… @CimarelliG @MagdelenaJusk @MarshallPescini @FriederikeRange

- strong interpersonal skills and a conscientious work attitude - design and implement studies relevant to the research topic - be mobile during a 24-months data collection period - provide TA at the University of Neuchatel - knowledge of the FACS coding system is an advantage

The successful candidate is expected to - possess a MSc degree in a relevant discipline - demonstrate strong interest in animal cognition - have practical experience collecting and scoring behavioural data - show aptitude in statistics and data processing - be fluent in English

🚨🚨PhD position alert!! 🚨🚨We are looking for a doctoral student to carry out behavioural research on acoustic and visual communication in wolves and dogs @ Comparative Cognition Lab (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) and the @DomLabVienna (@VetmeduniVienna, Austria)

@KLIVVWien @ecbb2024 @VetmeduniVienna

And hopefully you didn’t miss the talk by @aberghaenel on prenatal stress effects yesterday!

The @DomLabVienna is at the @ecbb2024! Go check the posters of our PhD students @UBlenkus on the personality of free-ranging dogs, @DarioStaric on size perception in dogs, and @SvenjaCapitain on dog-wolf differences during conflicts with humans!

📢Have a look at this paper published in May by the @DomLabVienna! "Urbanization does not affect red foxes’ interest in anthropogenic food, but increases their initial cautiousness" doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoa… 📸:WikimediaCommons

Do dogs smell our emotions? Help us discover the mistery! Seeking human female participants for sample collection. Where: Vetmeduni Vienna (Austria). For more info: svenja.capitain@vetmeduni.ac.at @VetmeduniVienna @KLIVVWien @univienna @BOKUvienna @ceu @wu_vienna

🚨 New speaker unlocked ! 🚨 Meet Friederike Range, groupe leader in the Domestication lab in Vienna, and discover more about the Wolf world ! 🐺 @FriederikeRange @DomLabVienna Paris #escbc2024 #speaker #wolves #behaviour

📢NEW PAPER by @DomLabVienna: "Going back to “basics”: Harlow’s learning set task with wolves and dogs" link.springer.com/article/10.375… #OA @VetmeduniVienna

📢More from the @DomLabVienna: "Intra and interspecific audience effect on domestic #dogs' behavioural displays and facial expressions" @MarshallPescini rdcu.be/dIxU6 @

How does urbanization affect wildlife? New paper out on the effect of urbanization on red foxes' exploration and fear when encountering a novel human-made object! 🤩 @KLIVVWien @VetmeduniVienna academic.oup.com/cz/advance-art…

If the object was empty, differently urbanized foxes behaved similarly, but when food was present, urbanized foxes showed less fear than less urbanized ones! Congratulations to the urban wolves (+ foxes, apparently 😁) team! @MarshallPescini