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Ethology/body Language Flashcards

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When a dog focuses his weight in the back, what can this imply?

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Aggressive,curious, angry suspicious

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If a dogs body weight is backwards, what does that imply?

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Threatened, anxious, ready to run

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If a dogs body is loose, what does this imply?

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Playful

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If a dogs body is tight, what does this imply?

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Stressed, frightened, angry, aggressive

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If a dogs body is forward, Tight, ears up, tail high, what does this imply?

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About to aggress

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What does BEET stand for when looking for main areas to look for body language signals?

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Body Tension
Expression
Ears
Tail

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What does expression include?

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Eyes, muzzle, nostrils, whiskers, comisher etc.

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What is an agonistic pucker?

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Pursed, tight lips as if you are mad at something

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What does a forward wisker bed indicate?

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An intent to approach and may turn into an agonistic pucker or a snarl

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What does a tongue flick indicate?

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Conflict, stress, over arousal

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What does dilated pupils indicate?

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Arousal

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What does tight to head ears indicate?

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Anxiety

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What does half-mast or pinned back ears indicate?

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Worry

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What does forward ears indicate?

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Alert, or coming forward, confidence

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When trying to read tails, what are the three first things to look for?

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Angle- midline, raised above spine, or tucked

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What does a raised/flagged tail indicate?

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Confidence, forward motion

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What does a midline tail indicate?

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Neutrality, friendly relaxed internal state

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What does a tucked tail indicate?

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Insecurity or fear, frustration, approach avoidance conflict

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What does a happy wag look like?

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No body tension, loose rear end, propelled, broad circular motion

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A fast wagging tail in the presence of a potential threat indicates what?

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Suspicion

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21
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An aroused dog with a fast wagging tail indicates?

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The potential to lunge forward

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What is a never to be trusted tail set?

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High, tight tail with a short arch fast wag

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23
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A slow wag at midline indicates what?

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Ready for friendly interaction

24
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What are the 10 distance decreasing signals, affiliative behaviors and greeting behaviors?

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1: Pawing,
2: Greeting behaviors,
3: Approaching with a wiggly curved body,
4: Presentation of a wiggly rear end,
5: Play bow
6: Loose tail wag
7: Head press
8: Hip nudge
9: Inguinal sniffs
10: Nose to nose touching

25
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What are appeasement behaviors?

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Calming signals, or distance increasing behaviors to stop an aggressive or scary behavior.

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What are the 8 appeasement behaviors?

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Pawing (to push away), puppy like licking, inguinal twist, submissive grin, obnoxious submission, rolling on the ground, submissive urination, repeated, extended muzzle nudging and licking

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What are the 8 dramatic distance increasing signals for fear aggression?

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1: barking
2: snarling
3: lunging
4: snapping
5: growling
6: agonistic pucker
7: intense stares
8: height seeking postures

28
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What are the 9 subtle distance increasing signals?

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Displacement behaviors: Yawning, scratching, grooming, URL-genital check, sniffing, stretching, rapid blinking, whale eyes,and a head turn, shaking off

29
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What are the three categories of emotional/ behavioral signals?

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Distance increasing, distance decreasing, and stress

30
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What are the 9 mild to moderate stress signals?

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Nose lick, yawning, scratching, shaking, weird grooming, head turns, avoidance, rapid blinking, fast panting

31
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What does a dog with tight ears, panting with a wide tongue, and with tension ridges in his face indicate?

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Stress

32
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In simple terms what does shaking indicate?

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Whatever happens before was stressful, good or bad

33
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What should you do if your dog is exhibiting mild signs of stress?

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Interrupted, redirected for good behavior, and rewarded

34
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What are the ten extreme distress signals?

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Arched back, shedding hair/dander, stiff or braced legs, whale eyes, dilated pupil, hard eyes, sweaty paws, trembling, and tucked tail

35
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What is intraspecific aggression?

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Dog/dog

36
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What is interspacific aggression? What is the most frequent cause?

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Dog/human

Fear or distrust

37
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Which type of aggression is Different than most behaviors, silent, stalking, chasing, grabbing biting, killing, and ALWAYS for consumption or the reinforcement of killing?

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Predation

38
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What are key signs of territorial aggression? And where do they most likely occur?

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Barking, marking, scratching, fence fighting,

Urination at doorways, gates, fences, etc.

39
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How long after ovulation does a dog produce puppies?

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63 days

40
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Nesting, cleaning behaviors (eating placenta and after birth, stimulating urination and dedication, cleaning neat by eating poop, etc.), social instruction/correction to her puppies, and aggression towards humans are typical signs of what behavior?

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Maternal

41
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Not removing the fetal membrane, insufficient nursing, ignoring puppy, accidentally eating puppy while eating after birth are what type of behaviors?

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Abnormal maternal behaviors

42
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What is pseudopregnancy?

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When a dog acts like she’s pregnant but isn’t

43
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What is PICA?

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Abnormal eating of non edible substances.

44
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What is coprophagia?

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When a dog eats poop

45
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Where does house spoiling usually present?

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Anywhere but most likely in the room where there’s no interaction with dog

46
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Where does marking usually present?

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Corners, edges, doorways and thresholds, from both male and female and both urine and feces

47
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When a dog urinates and or deficates in confinement, this is a typical sign of

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Separation distress

48
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In the stages if fear, what is freeze?

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Inhibitory response of a low level or distance threat

49
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In the stages of fear, flight is?

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Excitatory response from high level or close proximity stimuli

50
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In the three stages of fear, fight is?

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When the dog feels there’s no other option, such as flight is blocked.

51
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Is fear learned or unlearned?

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Learned

52
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How is anxiety different then fear?

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Fear is normal, acute, temporary, and specific

Anxiety is a chronic issue produced by non specific apprehension, persistent sympathetic arousal, and vigilance

53
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What is a phobia? And what are the key elements?

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Excellent fear towards a specific stimuli, medically predisposed, and rarely respond to training

54
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Signs of anxiety, stress, panic, frustration, pacing, drooling, refusal of food, abnormal elimination, vocalization, digging, chewing at exit points, and extreme escape. Behaviors are signs of?

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Separation distress

55
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If you determine a situation is outside of your scope, what is the first thing you should do?

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Refer to the appropriate person

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