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Marc Bekoff
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 207
Citations - 9248
Marc Bekoff is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive ethology & Ethology. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 201 publications receiving 8651 citations. Previous affiliations of Marc Bekoff include University of Colorado Denver & University of Technology, Sydney.
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The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition
TL;DR: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition with contributions from cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others.
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Animal play : evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives
Marc Bekoff,John A. Byers +1 more
TL;DR: The evolutionary origins of play revisited, and glimpses into the structure and function of mammalian playfulness in the Macropodoidea, are explored.
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Social play and play-soliciting by infant canids
TL;DR: The development of social interaction was studied in infant coyotes, beagles, and wolves as mentioned in this paper, and it was concluded that social play is a valid class of social behavior and lends itself nicely to quantitative study.
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Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
Marc Bekoff,Jessica Pierce +1 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that animals exhibit a broad repertoire of moral behaviors, including fairness, empathy, trust, and reciprocity, and there is no moral gap between humans and other species.
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Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids
TL;DR: In this paper, the temporal placement of bows relative to actions that are also used in other contexts (dominance or predatory encounters) such as biting accompanied by rapid side-to-side shaking of the head was analyzed to determine if bows performed during ongoing social play are used to communicate the message "I want to play despite what I am going to do or just did".