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Dogs are much more difficult to reconcile after conflict than wolves, preferring other animals of their species. Domestication may have meant that the best friends of the man have lost the "pack mentality". This is revealed by a study of the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Vienna, published in the Royal Society Open Science.
Researchers studied four packs of wolves and dogs in captivity, paying particular attention to how they behaved in minutes after a violent conflict. The packs of wolves consisted of wild animals captured and kept in captivity. Not knowing each other led to many conflicts, on average, once an hour. But from the badysis, the researchers noted that they tended to be short-lived and that hunters tended to recover almost immediately thereafter. After 10 minutes, it was often possible to watch them play together.
The four packs of dogs were trained by taking animals in a shelter. They did not know each other either, which led to occasional fighting (less frequent than among wolves). But on the other hand, they tended to fight more brutally and avoid themselves after being beaten rather than reconciling themselves. The researchers suggest that rapid conflict resolution is important for wolf pack survival, which would explain the observed behavior. While dogs, even for thousands of years of domestication, have lost the ability to reconcile easily after a conflict. In their new role as best human friends, it is more important that they behave independently of others in their species.
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