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Author | Proops, L.; Burden, F.; Osthaus, B. | ||||
Title | Mule cognition: a case of hybrid vigour? | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2009 | Publication | Animal Cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
Volume | 12 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 75-84 |
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Abstract | Abstract: This study compares the behaviour of the mule (Equus asinus x Equus caballus) with that of its parent species to assess the effects of hybridization on cognition. Six mules, six ponies (E. caballus) and six donkeys (E. asinus) were given a two choice visual discrimination learning task. Each session consisted of 12 trials and pass level was reached when subjects chose the correct stimulus for at least 9 out of the 12 trials in three consecutive sessions. A record was made of how many pairs each subject learnt over 25 sessions. The mules" performance was significantly better than that of either of the parent species (Kruskal-Wallis: Hx = 8.11, P = 0.017). They were also the only group to learn enough pairs to be able to show a successive reduction in the number of sessions required to reach criterion level. This study provides the first empirical evidence that the improved characteristics of mules may be extended from physical attributes to cognitive function. | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4714 | ||
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Author | Tschudin, A. | ||||
Title | Relative Neocortex Size and Its Correlates in Dolphins: Comparisons with Humans and Implications for Mental Evolution | Type | Manuscript | ||
Year | 1999 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
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Publisher | University of Natal | Place of Publication | Pietermaritzburg, South Africa | Editor | |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4727 | ||
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Author | Slater, P.; Rosenblatt, J.; Snowdon, C.; Roper, T. | ||||
Title | ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR, 31 | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2001 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
Volume | 31 | Issue | Pages | ||
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Abstract | Description The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior remains as it has been since the series began: to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behavior by presenting their theoretical ideas and research to their colleagues and to those in neighboring fields. We hope that the series will continue its “contribution to the development of the field”, as its intended role was phrased in the Preface to the first volume in 1965. Since that time, traditional areas of animal behavior have achieved new vigor by the links they have formed with related fields and by the closer relationship that now exists between those studying animal and human subjects. Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 31 continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new theories and research developments with respect to behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative psychology, these volumes foster cooperation and communications in these dense fields. Audience Experimental psychologists studying animal behavior, comparative psychologists, ethologists, evolutionary biologists, and ichthyologists. Contents Contributors. Preface.M.L. East and H. Hofer, Conflict and Co-operation in a Female Dominated Society: A Re-assessment of the “Hyper-aggressive” Image of Spotted Hyenas.C. ten Cate, H. Slabbekoorn, and M.R. Ballintijn, Bird Song and Male-male Competition: Causes and Consequences of Vocal Variability in the Collared Dove (Streptopelia Decaocto).R.W. Byrne, Imitation of Novel Complex Actions: What Does the Evidence from Animals Mean?L.J. Rogers, Lateralization in Vertebrates: Its Early Evolution, General Pattern and Development.S.H. Hulse, Auditory Scene Analysis in Animal Communication.P.K. Stoddard, Electric Signals: Predation, Sex, and Environmental Constraints.T. Aubin and P. Jouventin, How to Vocally Identify Kin in a Crowd: The Penguin Model. Index. Contents of Previous Volumes. |
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Publisher | ACADEMIC PRESS | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4736 | ||
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Author | Lefebvre, L.; Reader, S.M.; Sol, D. | ||||
Title | Brains, Innovations and Evolution in Birds and Primates | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2004 | Publication | Brain, Behavior and Evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Brain. Behav. Evol. |
Volume | 63 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 233-246 |
Keywords | Innovation W Brain evolution W Hyperstriatum ventrale W Neostriatum W Isocortex W Birds W Primates W Tool use W Invasion biology | ||||
Abstract | Abstract Several comparative research programs have focusedon the cognitive, life history and ecological traits thataccount for variation in brain size. We review one ofthese programs, a program that uses the reported frequencyof behavioral innovation as an operational measureof cognition. In both birds and primates, innovationrate is positively correlated with the relative size of associationareas in the brain, the hyperstriatum ventrale andneostriatum in birds and the isocortex and striatum inprimates. Innovation rate is also positively correlatedwith the taxonomic distribution of tool use, as well asinterspecific differences in learning. Some features ofcognition have thus evolved in a remarkably similar wayin primates and at least six phyletically-independent avianlineages. In birds, innovation rate is associated withthe ability of species to deal with seasonal changes in theenvironment and to establish themselves in new regions,and it also appears to be related to the rate atwhich lineages diversify. Innovation rate provides a usefultool to quantify inter-taxon differences in cognitionand to test classic hypotheses regarding the evolution ofthe brain. |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4738 | ||
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Author | Mills, D.S.; McDonnell, S. M. (eds) | ||||
Title | The Domestic Horse | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
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Abstract | Humans have had a profound influence on the horse since its domestication in the late Neolithic period. Used for transport, labour, food and recreation, horses have become important in many facets of our society. Daniel Mills and Sue McDonnell have produced an exceptional account of our current knowledge of the development and management of the behaviour of the horse, from its wild roots. The Domestic Horse brings together, for the first time, an unrivalled collection of international scientific authors to write on the latest findings concerning the behaviour and welfare of this beautiful animal. Illustrated throughout, The Domestic Horse will appeal to animal scientists, those working with horses in a professional capacity and the owner/enthusiast. It also provides sound complementary reading for animal/equine science courses and veterinary students. | ||||
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication | Camebridge | Editor | Mills, D.S.; McDonnell, S. M. |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4750 | ||
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Author | Krueger, K. | ||||
Title | “Pferdehaltung und Ethologie der Pferde” im Bachelorstudiengang Pferdewirtschaft | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2014 | Publication | Forschendes Lernen initiieren, umsetzen und reflektieren | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Publisher | UniversitätsVerlag Webler | Place of Publication | Bielefeld | Editor | : S. Lepp und C. Niederdrenk-Felgner |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5944 | ||
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Author | Cooper, J.J.; Albentosa, M.J. | ||||
Title | Behavioural adaptation in the domestic horse: potential role of apparently abnormal responses including stereotypic behaviour | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2005 | Publication | Livestock Production Science | Abbreviated Journal | Livest. Prod. Sci. |
Volume | 92 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 177-182 |
Keywords | Behavioural adaptation; Horse; Stereotypic behaviour | ||||
Abstract | Classically, biologists have considered adaptation of behavioural characteristics in terms of long-term functional benefits to the individual, such as survival or reproductive fitness. In captive species, including the domestic horse, this level of explanation is limited, as for the most part, horses are housed in conditions that differ markedly from those in which they evolved. In addition, an individual horse's reproductive fitness is largely determined by man rather than its own behavioural strategies. Perhaps for reasons of this kind, explanations of behavioural adaptation to environmental challenges by domestic animals, including the capacity to learn new responses to these challenges, tend to concentrate on the proximate causes of behaviour. However, understanding the original function of these adaptive responses can help us explain why animals perform apparently novel or functionless activities in certain housing conditions and may help us to appreciate what the animal welfare implications might be. This paper reviews the behavioural adaptation of the domestic horse to captivity and discusses how apparently abnormal behaviour may not only provide a useful practical indicator of specific environmental deficiencies but may also serve the animal as an adaptive response to these deficiencies in an “abnormal” environment. | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4829 | ||
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Author | Hostetter, A.B.; Cantero, M.; Hopkins, W.D. | ||||
Title | Differential use of vocal and gestural communication by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in response to the attentional status of a human (Homo sapiens) | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2001 | Publication | Journal of Comparative Psychology | Abbreviated Journal | J. Comp. Psychol. |
Volume | 115 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 337-343 |
Keywords | Animals; *Attention; *Communication Methods, Total; Female; *Gestures; Humans; Male; Motivation; Pan troglodytes/*psychology; Social Environment; Species Specificity; *Vocalization, Animal | ||||
Abstract | This study examined the communicative behavior of 49 captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), particularly their use of vocalizations, manual gestures, and other auditory- or tactile-based behaviors as a means of gaining an inattentive audience's attention. A human (Homo sapiens) experimenter held a banana while oriented either toward or away from the chimpanzee. The chimpanzees' behavior was recorded for 60 s. Chimpanzees emitted vocalizations faster and were more likely to produce vocalizations as their 1st communicative behavior when a human was oriented away from them. Chimpanzees used manual gestures more frequently and faster when the human was oriented toward them. These results replicate the findings of earlier studies on chimpanzee gestural communication and provide new information about the intentional and functional use of their vocalizations. | ||||
Address | Department of Psychology, Berry College, USA | ||||
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ISSN | 0735-7036 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4970 | ||
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Author | Virányi, Zs.; Range, F.; Huber, L. | ||||
Title | Attentiveness toward others and social learning in domestic dogs. | Type | Book Chapter | ||
Year | 2008 | Publication | Learning from Animals?: Examining the Nature of Human Uniqueness | Abbreviated Journal | |
Volume | Issue | Pages | 141-154 | ||
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Publisher | Psychology Press | Place of Publication | New York, NY | Editor | Röska-hardy,L.S.. ;Neumann-held, E. |
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4974 | ||
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Author | Pack, A. A.; Herman, L. M. | ||||
Title | Bottlenosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Comprehend the Referent of Both Static and Dynamic Human Gazing and Pointing in an Object-Choice Task. | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 2004 | Publication | Journal of Comparative Psychology | Abbreviated Journal | J. Comp. Psychol. |
Volume | 118 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 160-171 |
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Abstract | The authors tested 2 bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) for their understanding of human-directed gazing or pointing in a 2-alternative object-choice task. A dolphin watched a human informant either gazing at or pointing toward 1 of 2 laterally placed objects and was required to perform a previously indicated action to that object. Both static and dynamic gaze, as well as static and dynamic direct points and cross-body points, yielded errorless or nearly errorless performance. Gaze with the informant's torso obscured (only the head was shown) produced no performance decrement, but gaze with eyes only resulted in chance performance. The results revealed spontaneous understanding of human gaze accomplished through head orientation, with or without the human informant's eyes obscured, and demonstrated that gaze-directed cues were as effective as point-directed cues in the object-choice task. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) | ||||
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Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4976 | ||
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