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| Author | Conradt, L.; Roper, T.J. | ||||
| Title | Deciding group movements: Where and when to go | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Behavioural Processes | Abbreviated Journal | Behav. Process. |
| Volume | 84 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 675-677 |
| Keywords | activity synchronisation; aggregation rules; collective decisions; democracy; group decisions; sexual segregation; decision sharing; social choice theory | ||||
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A group of animals can only move cohesively, if group members “somehow” reach a consensus about the timing (e.g., start) and the spatial direction/destination of the collective movement. Timing and spatial decisions usually differ with respect to the continuity of their cost/benefit distribution in such a way that, in principle, compromises are much more feasible in timing decision (e.g. median preferred time) than they are in spatial decisions. The consequence is that consensus costs connected to collective timing decisions are usually less skewed amongst group members than are consensus costs connected to spatial decisions. This, in turn, influences the evolution of decision sharing: sharing in timing decisions is most likely to evolve when conflicts are high relative to group cohesion benefits, while sharing in spatial decisions is most likely to evolve in the opposite situation. We discuss the implications of these differences for the study of collective movement decisions. | ||||
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| ISSN | 0376-6357 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5086 | ||
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| Author | Sankey, C.; Richard-Yris, M.-A.; Henry, S.; Fureix, C.; Nassur, F.; Hausberger, M. | ||||
| Title | Reinforcement as a mediator of the perception of humans by horses (Equus caballus) | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Animal Cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
| Volume | 13 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 753-764-764 |
| Keywords | Perception of humans – Human/animal relationship – Positive reinforcement – Negative reinforcement – Equus caballus | ||||
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A central question in the interspecific human/animal relationship is how domestic animals perceive humans as a significant element of their environment. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the use of positive or negative reinforcement in horse training may have consequences on the animals’ perception of humans, as a positive, negative or neutral element. Two groups of ponies were trained to walk backwards in response to a vocal order using either positive or negative reinforcement. Heart rate monitors and behavioural observations were used to assess the animals’ perception of humans on the short (just after training) and long (5 months later) terms. The results showed that the type of reinforcement had a major effect on the subsequent animals’ perception of familiar and unfamiliar humans. Negative reinforcement was rapidly associated with an increased emotional state, as revealed by heart rate measurements and behavioural observations (head movements and ears laid back position). Its use led the ponies to seek less contact with humans. On the contrary, ponies trained with positive reinforcement showed an increased interest in humans and sought contact after training. This is especially remarkable as it was reached in a maximum of 5 sessions of 1 to 3 min (i.e. 5 to 15 min) and had lasting effects (visible after 5 months). Even learning was positively influenced by positive reinforcement. Overall, horses seem capable of associating humans to particular experiences and display extended long-term memory abilities. | ||||
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| Publisher | Springer Berlin / Heidelberg | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 1435-9448 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5175 | ||
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| Author | Fraser, O.N.; Bugnyar, T. | ||||
| Title | Do Ravens Show Consolation? Responses to Distressed Others | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | PLoS ONE | Abbreviated Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | 5 | Pages | e10605 |
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<sec> <title>Background</title> <p>Bystander affiliation (post-conflict affiliation from an uninvolved bystander to the conflict victim) may represent an expression of empathy in which the bystander consoles the victim to alleviate the victim's distress (“consolation”). However, alternative hypotheses for the function of bystander affiliation also exist. Determining whether ravens spontaneously offer consolation to distressed partners may not only help us to understand how animals deal with the costs of aggressive conflict, but may also play an important role in the empathy debate.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Methodology/Principal findings</title> <p>This study investigates the post-conflict behavior of ravens, applying the predictive framework for the function of bystander affiliation for the first time in a non-ape species. We found weak evidence for reconciliation (post-conflict affiliation between former opponents), but strong evidence for both bystander affiliation and solicited bystander affiliation (post-conflict affiliation from the victim to a bystander). Bystanders involved in both interactions were likely to share a valuable relationship with the victim. Bystander affiliation offered to the victim was more likely to occur after intense conflicts. Renewed aggression was less likely to occur after the victim solicited affiliation from a bystander.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Conclusions/Significance</title> <p>Our findings suggest that in ravens, bystanders may console victims with whom they share a valuable relationship, thus alleviating the victims' post-conflict distress. Conversely victims may affiliate with bystanders after a conflict in order to reduce the likelihood of renewed aggression. These results stress the importance of relationship quality in determining the occurrence and function of post-conflict interactions, and show that ravens may be sensitive to the emotions of others.</p> </sec> | ||||
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| Publisher | Public Library of Science | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5195 | ||
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| Author | Wascher, C.A.F.; Fraser, O.N.; Kotrschal, K. | ||||
| Title | Heart Rate during Conflicts Predicts Post-Conflict Stress-Related Behavior in Greylag Geese | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | PLoS ONE | Abbreviated Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | 12 | Pages | e15751 |
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Background Social stressors are known to be among the most potent stressors in group-living animals. This is not only manifested in individual physiology (heart rate, glucocorticoids), but also in how individuals behave directly after a conflict. Certain ‘stress-related behaviors’ such as autopreening, body shaking, scratching and vigilance have been suggested to indicate an individual's emotional state. Such behaviors may also alleviate stress, but the behavioral context and physiological basis of those behaviors is still poorly understood. Methodology/Principal Findings We recorded beat-to-beat heart rates (HR) of 22 greylag geese in response to agonistic encounters using fully implanted sensor-transmitter packages. Additionally, for 143 major events we analyzed the behavior shown by our focal animals in the first two minutes after an interaction. Our results show that the HR during encounters and characteristics of the interaction predicted the frequency and duration of behaviors shown after a conflict. Conclusions/Significance To our knowledge this is the first study to quantify the physiological and behavioral responses to single agonistic encounters and to link this to post conflict behavior. Our results demonstrate that ‘stress-related behaviors’ are flexibly modulated by the characteristics of the preceding aggressive interaction and reflect the individual's emotional strain, which is linked to autonomic arousal. We found no support for the stress-alleviating hypothesis, but we propose that stress-related behaviors may play a role in communication with other group members, particularly with pair-partners. |
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| Publisher | Public Library of Science | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5298 | ||
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| Author | Karenina, K.; Giljov, A.; Baranov, V.; Osipova, L.; Krasnova, V.; Malashichev, Y. | ||||
| Title | Visual Laterality of Calf–Mother Interactions in Wild Whales | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | PLoS ONE | Abbreviated Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | 11 | Pages | e13787 |
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Background Behavioral laterality is known for a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Laterality in social interactions has been described for a wide range of species including humans. Although evidence and theoretical predictions indicate that in social species the degree of population level laterality is greater than in solitary ones, the origin of these unilateral biases is not fully understood. It is especially poorly studied in the wild animals. Little is known about the role, which laterality in social interactions plays in natural populations. A number of brain characteristics make cetaceans most suitable for investigation of lateralization in social contacts. Methodology/Principal Findings Observations were made on wild beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in the greatest breeding aggregation in the White Sea. Here we show that young calves (in 29 individually identified and in over a hundred of individually not recognized mother-calf pairs) swim and rest significantly longer on a mother's right side. Further observations along with the data from other cetaceans indicate that found laterality is a result of the calves' preference to observe their mothers with the left eye, i.e., to analyze the information on a socially significant object in the right brain hemisphere. Conclusions/Significance Data from our and previous work on cetacean laterality suggest that basic brain lateralizations are expressed in the same way in cetaceans and other vertebrates. While the information on social partners and novel objects is analyzed in the right brain hemisphere, the control of feeding behavior is performed by the left brain hemisphere. Continuous unilateral visual contacts of calves to mothers with the left eye may influence social development of the young by activation of the contralateral (right) brain hemisphere, indicating a possible mechanism on how behavioral lateralization may influence species life and welfare. This hypothesis is supported by evidence from other vertebrates. |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5297 | ||
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| Author | R Development Core Team | ||||
| Title | R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing | Type | Software | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
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| Publisher | Foundation for Statistical Computing | Place of Publication | Vienna | Editor | |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 822 | ||
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| Author | Rands, S.A. | ||||
| Title | Group-movement [`]initiation' and state-dependent decision-making | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Behavioural Processes | Abbreviated Journal | Behav. Process. |
| Volume | 84 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 668-670 |
| Keywords | Decision-making; State-dependence; Dynamic programming; Co-operation | ||||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5087 | ||
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| Author | Bergmüller, R. | ||||
| Title | Animal Personality and Behavioural Syndromes | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Animal Behaviour – Evolution and Mechanisms | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 587-621 | ||
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| Publisher | Springer | Place of Publication | Heidelberg | Editor | Kappeler, P. |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5179 | ||
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| Author | Krueger, K. | ||||
| Title | “Erfasst” das Pferd die menschliche Psyche" | Type | Book Chapter | ||
| Year | 2010 | Publication | Pferdegestützte Therapie bei psychischen Erkrankungen | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 40-51 | ||
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| Publisher | Schattauer Verlag | Place of Publication | Stuttgart | Editor | Dettling, M.; Opgen-Rhein, C.; Kläschen, M. |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5443 | ||
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| Author | Krueger, K. | ||||
| Title | Das Pferd im Blickpunkt der Wissenschaft | Type | Book Whole | ||
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| Publisher | Xenophon Verlag | Place of Publication | Wald | Editor | |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6009 | ||
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