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Author Yorke, J.; Adams, C.; Coady, N.
Title Therapeutic Value of Equine-Human Bonding in Recovery from Trauma Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Anthrozoös Abbreviated Journal Anthrozoös
Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 17-30
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Abstract ABSTRACTAlthough most human-animal bond research has focused on relationships between humans and pets, animals have been used for therapeutic purposes in a variety of settings. Therapeutic riding programs have demonstrated a positive impact on quality of life for people with disabilities. Equine-facilitated psychotherapy is a promising approach to address self-esteem, depression, and other emotional or psychological problems. Restoration of the trauma victim's capacity for recovery hinges on provision of safety and development of trust, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. Thus, recovery from trauma represents an ideal context for exploring the therapeutic impact of equine?human relationships. The six participants in this study recognized that their pre-existing relationships with horses were therapeutic during recovering from trauma, defined as sufficient to have caused significant change in the participant's life. Semi-structured interviews and video-tapes of horse?rider interaction were used to describe the nature of the equine?human bond and its contribution to recovery from trauma. The equine?human bonds described by participants have parallels both with important elements of therapeutic alliances between professionals and clients and with the positive impact of relationship factors on client outcome.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6033
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Author Boogert, N.J.; Reader, S.M.; Hoppitt, W.; Laland, K.N.
Title The origin and spread of innovations in starlings Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Animal Behaviour Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 75 Issue 4 Pages 1509-1518
Keywords diffusion dynamics; dominance; foraging; group; innovation; neophobia; social learning; social network; starling; Sturnus vulgaris
Abstract There are numerous reports of novel learned behaviour patterns in animal populations, yet the factors influencing the invention and spread of these innovations remain poorly understood. Here we investigated to what extent the pattern of spread of innovations in captive groups of starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, could be predicted by knowledge of individual and social group variables, including association patterns, social rank orders, measures of neophobia and asocial learning performance. We presented small groups of starlings with a series of novel extractive foraging tasks and recorded the latency for each bird to contact and solve each task, as well as the orders of contacting and solving. We then explored which variables best predicted the observed diffusion patterns. Object neophobia and social rank measures characterized who was the first of the group to contact the novel foraging tasks, and the subsequent spread of contacting tasks was associated with latency to feed in a novel environment. Asocial learning performance, measured in isolation, predicted who was the first solver of the novel foraging tasks in each group. Association patterns did not predict the spread of solving. Contact latency and solving duration were negatively correlated, consistent with social learning underlying the spread of solving. Our findings indicate that we can improve our understanding of the diffusion dynamics of innovations in animal groups by investigating group-dependent and individual variables in combination. We introduce novel methods for exploring predictors of the origin and spread of behavioural innovations that could be widely applied.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6036
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Author Brooks, C.J.; Harris, S.
Title Directed movement and orientation across a large natural landscape by zebras, Equus burchelli antiquorum Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Animal Behaviour Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.
Volume 76 Issue 2 Pages 277-285
Keywords correlated random walk; directed movement; Equus burchelli antiquorum; Gps; movement path; orientation; spatial memory; spatial scale; zebra
Abstract We investigated how plains zebras moved across a large natural landscape by analysing the movement paths of nine zebra mares foraging out from spatially confined waterholes during the dry season in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana. Since it was essential to investigate directed movement over a range of spatial scales to determine the correct movement behaviour and strategy, we used Nams's scaling test for oriented movement. Zebras followed directed movement paths in the lower to medium spatial scales (10 m–3.7 km) and above their visual, and possibly olfactory, range. The spatial scale of directed movement suggests that zebras had a well-defined spatial awareness and cognitive ability. Seven zebras used directed movement paths, but the remaining two followed paths not significantly different to a correlated random walk (CRW). At large spatial scales (>3 km) no distinct movement pattern could be identified and paths could not be distinguished from a CRW. Foraging strategy affected the extent of directed movement: zebras with a confined dispersion of grazing patches around the central place directed their movements over a longer distance. Zebras may extend the distance at which they can direct their movement after improving their knowledge of the local environment.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6148
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Author Webster, M.M.; Laland, K.N.
Title Social learning strategies and predation risk: minnows copy only when using private information would be costly Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Proc Biol Sci Abbreviated Journal Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B
Volume 275 Issue 1653 Pages 2869-2876
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Abstract Animals can acquire information from the environment privately, by sampling it directly, or socially, through learning from others. Generally, private information is more accurate, but expensive to acquire, while social information is cheaper but less reliable. Accordingly, the 'costly information hypothesis' predicts that individuals will use private information when the costs associated with doing so are low, but that they should increasingly use social information as the costs of using private information rise. While consistent with considerable data, this theory has yet to be directly tested in a satisfactory manner. We tested this hypothesis by giving minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus) a choice between socially demonstrated and non-demonstrated prey patches under conditions of low, indirect and high simulated predation risk. Subjects had no experience (experiment 1) or prior private information that conflicted with the social information provided by the demonstrators (experiment 2). In both experiments, subjects spent more time in the demonstrated patch than in the non-demonstrated patch, and in experiment 1 made fewer switches between patches, when risk was high compared with when it was low. These findings are consistent with the predictions of the costly information hypothesis, and imply that minnows adopt a 'copy-when-asocial-learning-is-costly' learning strategy.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6196
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Author Hoppitt, W.; Laland, K.N.
Title Social processes influencing learning in animals: a review of the evidence Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Adv Study Behav Abbreviated Journal
Volume 38 Issue Pages 105-165
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Hoppitt2008 Serial 6260
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Author Langbein, J.; Siebert, K.; Nuernberg, G.
Title Concurrent recall of serially learned visual discrimination problems in dwarf goats (Capra hircus) Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Behav Proc Abbreviated Journal
Volume 79 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Langbein2008 Serial 6363
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Author Dugnol, B.; Fernández, C.; Galiano, G.; Velasco, J.
Title On a chirplet transform-based method applied to separating and counting wolf howls Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Signal Process Abbreviated Journal
Volume 88 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Dugnol2008 Serial 6466
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Author Richards, D.G.; Wiley, R.H.
Title Reverberations and Amplitude Fluctuations in the Propagation of Sound in a Forest: Implications for Animal Communication Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Am Nat Abbreviated Journal
Volume 115 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Richards2008 Serial 6485
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Author Charif, R.A.; Waack, A.M.; Strickman, L.M.
Title Raven Pro 1.3 User's Manual Type Book Whole
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Publisher Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Place of Publication Ithaca, New York Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Charif2008 Serial 6488
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Author Sueur, J.; Aubin, T.; Simonis, C.
Title Seewave: a free modular tool for sound analysis and synthesis Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Bioacoustics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 18 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Sueur2008 Serial 6490
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