Frequency of Back-Tracking in the Tracking Dog Export

@article{citeulike:3846801, abstract = {Trained tracking dogs were tested on straight tracks 200 paces long to determine if they would always go in the direction a track-layer had walked when brought in at 90 ° angle at the mid-point of a track. None of the dogs tested had any previous experience with this task. A total of 66 tracks were run. In 60.6\% of these, the dogs tracked in the direction the track-layer had walked. These results are not significant enough to say that the dogs tested were going in the direction of the track-layer any more frequently than one would expect from random chance (P> 0.05). Thirtytwo percent of the dogs exhibited a position preference with regard to the direction they first turned at the decision point. However, the preferred direction was not the same for all these dogs. As a group, the dogs showed no overall position preference (P> 0.05).}, address = {Amsterdam}, author = {Mackenzie, S. A. and Schultz, J. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3846801}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/4/291}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pawsoflife.org/pdf/Library%20articles/backtracking.pdf}, journal = {Applied Animal Behaviour Science}, keywords = {scent, tracking}, pages = {353--359}, posted-at = {2009-01-04 11:06:16}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.}, title = {Frequency of Back-Tracking in the Tracking Dog}, url = {http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/4/291}, volume = {17}, year = {1987} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3846801 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3846801 N2 - Trained tracking dogs were tested on straight tracks 200 paces long to determine if they would always go in the direction a track-layer had walked when brought in at 90 ° angle at the mid-point of a track. None of the dogs tested had any previous experience with this task. A total of 66 tracks were run. In 60.6% of these, the dogs tracked in the direction the track-layer had walked. These results are not significant enough to say that the dogs tested were going in the direction of the track-layer any more frequently than one would expect from random chance (P> 0.05). Thirtytwo percent of the dogs exhibited a position preference with regard to the direction they first turned at the decision point. However, the preferred direction was not the same for all these dogs. As a group, the dogs showed no overall position preference (P> 0.05). JF - Applied Animal Behaviour Science AD - Amsterdam EP - 359 TI - Frequency of Back-Tracking in the Tracking Dog PB - Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. VL - 17 SP - 353 KW - scent KW - tracking AU - Mackenzie, SA AU - Schultz, JA PY - 1987/// UR - http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/4/291 ER -