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Author (up) Bannikov Ag, openurl 
  Title Kulan (Equus hemionus Pallas) 1775 Type Book Chapter
  Year 1966 Publication Die Säugtiere der Sowjetunion Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 835-858  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Jena Editor Heptner,V.G., Naumov,N.P.  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 919  
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Author (up) Bannikov Ag, openurl 
  Title Ecologie et distribution d'Equus hemionus Pallas; les variations de sa limite de distribution septentrionale Type Journal Article
  Year 1961 Publication Abbreviated Journal La Terre et la Vie  
  Volume 1 Issue Pages 86-100  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 917  
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Author (up) Bannikov Ag, openurl 
  Title Special natural conditions of the biotope of the Przewalski wild horse and some biological features of this species Type Journal Article
  Year 1961 Publication Abbreviated Journal Equus VL -1  
  Volume Issue Pages 13-21  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 918  
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Author (up) Bannikov Ag, openurl 
  Title ´Über das Przewalski-Pferd Type Journal Article
  Year 1959 Publication Abbreviated Journal Priroda  
  Volume 48 Issue Pages  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 916  
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Author (up) Bannikov Ag, openurl 
  Title Distribution geographique et biologie du cheval sauvage et du cameau de Mongolie (Equus przewalskii et Camelus bactrianus) Type Journal Article
  Year 1958 Publication Abbreviated Journal Mammalia  
  Volume 22 Issue Pages 152-160  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 914  
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Author (up) Bannikov Ag, openurl 
  Title Zur Biologie des Kulans Equus hemionus Pallas Type Journal Article
  Year 1958 Publication Abbreviated Journal Z Säugetierk  
  Volume 23 Issue Pages 157-169  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 915  
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Author (up) Bannikov, A.G. openurl 
  Title Recent status of the wild ass in Mongolia Type Journal Article
  Year 1975 Publication IUCN Bulletin Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 16  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2219  
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Author (up) Bannikov, A.G. openurl 
  Title The Asiatic Wild Ass: neglected relative of the horse Type Journal Article
  Year 1971 Publication Animals Abbreviated Journal Animals  
  Volume 13 Issue Pages 580-585  
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  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 756  
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Author (up) Baragli, P.; Regolin, L pdf  openurl
  Title Cognitive Tests in Equids (Equus caballus and Equus Asinus) Type Conference Article
  Year 2008 Publication IESM 2008 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract For ages horses and donkeys constituted the most important domesticated animals. Even though equids were often bred and kept in close proximity to humans, surprisingly little is known about their cognitive abilities. Traditionally, horses are not regarded as clever animals; common beliefs maintain that the horses“ behaviour is merely driven by conditioned-responses. Additionally, from an anthropomorphic point of view donkeys are believed to be ”stupid“ animals.

Our study investigates the equids” ability to recover a hidden object. For this purpose the animal has to create and maintain a representation of the object and its location in space, from the moment in which it disappears from direct perception, till the moment in which it reappears. The knowledge about objects being entities that continue to exist even when they are no longer available for direct perception is refered to as the well known concept of “object permanence”.

We primarly assessed the ability of Esperia's pony and donkeys to solve a Detour problem while employing an opaque “U-shaped” barrier. Each animal observed a food bucket moving and disappearing behind the barrier. Immediately after the object"s disappearance, the animal was released to search for the object. If it solved the task by detouring the barrier it was positively reinforced.

The ability to retain in memory the hidden object as well as its spatial location was subsequently tested in the presence of two, rather than one, screens (Working Memory testing phase). The food bucket was made to move and hidden behind one of the two identical screens, while the animal was watching it. Following a pre-established delayed period of 10 sec, the animal was set free to look for the food. In such a test the detour problem is combined with the classical delayed-response task, which is in use for the comparison of memory duration in different species.

In order to recover the hidden objects, animals must encode, maintain and correctly regain from their working memory the existence of the no longer visible object and its location from their working memory.

Both donkeys and ponies performed the Detour task showing to grasp the fact that an object which is no longer perceivable still continues to exist and can be regained. They also were able to correctly retrieve the goal object after a delay of 10 s in the Working Memory tasks, showing that they had encoded, maintained and correclty retrieved from their working memory the spatial location of the hidden object as well as its existence.

Nevertheless, when Standardbreds, raised in traditional stables, were tested in identical conditions to those describe for the ponies and donkeys, they could not succeed in the Detour tasks. The reason for such differences needs to be studied Even though it would be interesting to focus on handling differences, i.e., the ponies had been living in an environment rich in natural stimuli, while the Standardbreds had lived in a man-controlled environment since birth. It is also noteworthy that, like donkeys, the Esperia's pony have a reputation for being hard to handle.

Several considerations could arise from our preliminary investigations, and we will have the pleasure to leave them open for discussion.
 
  Address University of Pisa- Dept of Veterinary Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology  
  Corporate Author Baragli, P. Thesis  
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  Notes Talk 15 min IESM 2008 Approved yes  
  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4461  
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Author (up) Baragli, P.; Demuru, E.; Palagi, E. pdf  openurl
  Title Mirror on the wall, who is the horsest of our all? Self-recognition in Equus caballus Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication Proceedings of the 3. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 3. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg  
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  Keywords Domestic horse • Mark test • Socio-cognitive skills • Self-awareness  
  Abstract Mirror Self-Recognition (MSR) is an extremely rare capacity in the animal kingdom that reveals the emergence of complex cognitive capacities (de Waal 2008). So far, MSR has been reported only in humans, chimpanzees (Gallup, 1970), bottlenose dolphins (Reiss and Marino, 2001) and Asian elephants (Plotnik et al, 2006), all species characterized by a highly developed cognition. There is growing evidence that domestic horses posses high cognitive abilities, such as cross-modal individual recognition (Proops et al, 2009), triadic post-conflict reunion to maintain social homeostasis (Cozzi et al, 2010), complex communicative systems (Whatan and McComb, 2014), flexibility in problem-solving (Lovrovich et al, 2015), and long-term memory (Hanggi and Ingersoll, 2009). All these capacities make horses a good candidate to test the ability of MSR in a domestic species. Through a classical MSR experimental paradigm (de Waal 2008) we tested eight horses living in social groups under semi-natural conditions (from the Italian Horse Protection rescue centre). Animals showing MSR typically go through four stages (Plotnik et al, 2006): (i) social response, (ii) physical mirror inspection (e.g., looking behind the mirror), (iii) repetitive mirror-testing behaviour (i.e., the beginning of mirror understanding), and (iv) self-directed behaviour (i.e., recognition of the mirror image as self). The final stage, known as the “mark-test”, is verified when a subject spontaneously uses the mirror to check for a coloured artificial mark on its own body which it cannot perceive otherwise. The horses underwent a three-phase “mark-test”: 1) with sham mark (transparent ultrasound water gel) positioned on both side at jaw level, 2) mark (yellow eye shadow mixed with ultrasound water gel) positioned on left side of jaw (with sham mark on the right), 3) mark (yellow eye shadow mixed with ultrasound water gel) positioned on right side of jaw (with sham mark on the left)

The mirror was one 0.5-cm-thick piece of 140x220-cm plexiglass glue on wood. Each test lasted one hour, horses were tested once a day, in consecutive days and at the same time. Our preliminary result on 1 horse shows some changes in self-directed behaviours which can be attributed to presence of the coloured mark. Firstly, the presence of the coloured mark significantly increased the frequency of scratching on both sides of the muzzle (p < 0.0001). The most intriguing result (p < 0.0001) comes from the comparison of the scratching rates directed towards the coloured mark side (N = 41) and the sham mark side (N = 23). Under the control condition (i.e. sham mark on both sides) no statistical difference was found for the scratching rates directed to the muzzle sides (dx N = 8; sx N = 5). Although further analyses are needed to confirm these preliminary results, our finding opens new scenarios about the evolution of Mirror Self-Recognition. The capacity of horses to recognize themselves in a mirror may be the outcome of an evolutionary convergence process driven by the cognitive pressures imposed by a complex social system and maintained despite thousands years of domestication.

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Domestic horse · Mark test · Socio-cognitive skills · Self-awareness

References

De Waal FBM (2008) The thief in the mirror. PloS Biol 6(8):e201

Gallup GG Jr (1970) Chimpanzees: Self-recognition. Science 167: 86-87.

Reiss D, Marino L (2001). Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:5937-5942.

Plotnik J, de Waal FBM, Reiss D (2006) Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103: 17053-17057.

Proops L, McComb K, Reby D. (2009) Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus). Proc Nat Acad Sci USA;106:947-951.

Cozzi A, Sighieri C, Gazzano A, Nicol CJ, Baragli P. Post-conflict friendly reunion in a permanent group of horses (Equus caballus). Behav Process 2010;85:185-190.

Wathan J, McComb K. The eyes and ears are visual indicators of attention in domestic horses. Curr Biol 2014;24(15): R677-R679.

Lovrovich P, Sighieri C, Baragli P (2015) Following human-given cues or not? Horses (Equus caballus) get smarter and change strategy in a delayed three choice task. Appl Anim Behav Sci, in press.

Hanggi EB, Ingersoll JF. (2009) Long-term memory for categories and concepts in horses (Equus caballus). Anim Cogn; 12:451-462.
 
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