Diurnal activity patterns of equally socialized and kept wolves, Canis lupus, and dogs, Canis lupus familiaris

Owing to domestication, dog behaviour differs from wolf behaviour, which should also affect time budgets. At the Wolf Science Center, wolves and mongrel dogs are raised kept in a similar way; thus, it is an ideal place compare budgets of search potential domestication-related shifts. Seven packs four were observed over full year. We focused on major behavioural categories, such as resting foraging, calculated proportion they spent each these activities. Based mainstream domestication hypotheses we predicted be generally more active than because would have relaxed need for efficiency. As expected, differed their Wolves slept, walked vocalized dogs, whereas foraged, sat manipulated objects more. Human presence around enclosure increased activity both, but this situation. Season day had same effect wolves. conclude that not too different intrinsic motivation affecting budgets, except responses humans. This suggests humans important social Zeitgeber equally socialized