Canine Behavior - A Photo Illustrated Handbook book by by Barbara Handelman, M.Ed., CDBC
A Dog World Top 12 Training and Behavior Book in 2010! Dogs have deliberate, subtle, and often humorous ways of expressing themselves.
Canine Behavior - A Photo Illustrated Handbook includes
1,000 images of dogs, wolves, coyotes, and foxes. It was created for everyone interested in dogs—pet owners, trainers, veterinarians, ethologists, and behaviorists. Using the interdisciplinary language of photography, Barbara Handelman illustrates and explains canine behavior and communication. Her book establishes a common understanding and vocabulary for people interested in, and working with, dogs.
This book is incredibly interesting. It's broken into sections rather than chapters and is detailed within the sections to show even minute variations in behavior. This book is valuable to anyone working with dogs from rescue to high level competition work.
Sections with a
FEW topics listed from each include:
- Section 1: Acquired Bite Inhibition- Amplitude
- Acquired Bite Inhibition (ABI)
- Aggression
- Aggressive Behavior Classifications
- Alliance Aggression
- Barrier Frustration/Aggressive Behavior
- Biologically-Based Aggressive Behavior
- Competitive Aggressive Behavior
- Defensive Aggressive Behavior
- Dominance Aggressive Behavior<.li>
- much more listed alphabetically
- Section 2: Anatomy
- Organ Systems
- The Brain
- Scent Perception
- Facial Anatomy
- External Anatomy
- Skeletal System
- Internal Organs
- Ear Positions
- Airplane Ears
- Ears Erect or Angled Forward
- Ears Back-Appeasement
- Wicked's Varied Ears Back Position
- Eyes
- more here…
- Section 3: Anthropomorphism- Butt Sniff
- Anthropomorphism
- Appeasement or Pacifying Behaviors
- Appetitive Behaviors
- Arousal
- Arrack
- Avoidance Behavior
- Bark Lunge
- Bitch Wars
- Bite Inhibition
- Body-Slams
- Bow
- Boxing
- Butt Sniff (Also Called Perianal Investigation)
- more here…
- Section 4: Cache-Displacement Behavior
- Cache
- Calming Signals
- Caution
- Chin Over
- Circle Investigation
- Clasp
- Commissure of the Lips
- Communication
- Compulsive Disorders
- Conspecific
- Comsummatory Behavior
- Consummatory Face
- Coprophagia
- Crouch
- Cruising Behavior
- more here…
- Section 5: Distance- Distress
- Critical Distance
- Flight Distance
- Social Distance
- Distance Decreasing Behaviors
- Distance Increasing Behaviors
- Distress
- Section 6: Domestication-External Stimuli
- Domestication
- Dominance
- Epimeletic Behavior
- Epiphenomenon
- Et-Epimeletic Behavior
- Ethogram
- Ethology
- Eustress
- more…
In total, there are 26 Sections with excellent photos, descriptions, concepts and definitions!
We highly recommend this book!
Canine Behavior - A Photo Illustrated Handbook, Barbara Handelman, M.Ed., CDBC, 2008, 347 pages, softcover.
Canine Training Systems also carries an eBook version of this title in digital format. Canine Behavior- A Photo Illustrated Handbook
