Article
Immobility experiments with dogs of the Arkansas Line of Nervous Pointers.
The Pavlovian journal of biological science - 1 Jan 2000
Reese W G, Newton J E, Angel C
Abstract excerpt
As demonstrated in four experiments, dogs and pups of the Arkansas Line of Nervous Pointers, in contrast to kennel-mate dogs of the normal line, respond to manual inversion and brief restraint in an open sling with prolonged, mainly hypertonic, immobility. This response is consistent and replicable. At least in 4-month-old pups, the duration of sling immobility is positively correlated with the degree of...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Dog Diseases
- Dogs
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
- Restraint, Physical
- Stress, Psychological