Comment on “Human‐directed attachment behaviour in wolves suggests standing ancestral variation for human‐dog attachment bonds”

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 13; no. 9; pp. e10514 - n/a
• Main Authors: Gácsi, Márta, Miklósi, Ádám, Topál, József
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bognor Regis John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Attachment; Behavior; Caregivers; Dogs; Domestic animals; Domestication; Letter to the Editor; Letters to the Editor; Social behavior; Social interactions; Wolves; Zoology

In their recent paper, Hansen Wheat et al. (Ecology and Evolution, 2022, 12, e9299) claimed that hand raised 23‐week‐old wolves showed the same attachment behaviour towards their handler in the Strange Situation Test (SST) (Determinants of infant behavior, 1969, 4, 111) as dogs. At first glance, the...