Done deal-cohabiting dominant and subordinate dogs differently rely on familiar demonstrators in a detour task.

1 ). When we used the subranks, the Cochran- Q tests revealed a similar pattern to the one seen in the case of holistic rank (Table 1 ): Formally dominant dogs’ success rate only improved after owner demonstration (Trial 1–2 : Z = − 1.73, p = 0.083; Trial 1–3 : Z = − 2, p = 0.046), while subordinates only showed a trend-like improvement in the dog demonstration group (Trial 1–2 : Z = − 1.73, p = 0.083; Trial 1–3 : Z = − 1.73, p = 0.083, Fig. 2 a).

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