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Author Schilder, M.B. H. doi  openurl
  Title Interventions in a herd of semi – captive Plains zebras Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Behavior Abbreviated Journal Behaviour  
  Volume 112 Issue 1-2 Pages (up) 53-83  
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  Abstract n a herd of semi-captive plains zebras interventions, which occurred within the harems, were investigated in order to answer the question why zebras interfered. These interventions are of interest because they regulate the contacts between companions and because, as corrective and preventive measures, they reveal the normative principles underlying the behaviours by which animals structure their social environment. An attempt was made to deduce 1) the internal norms of the interferer; 2) his short term aims; 3) his tactis and 4) his perception of the social environment. The analysis revealed that in the case of an affiliative interaction foals, yearlings and adult mares started to interfere if a friend had an affiliative contact with another zebra. In view of the interferer's behaviours it was concluded that their aim was to break off the ongoing interaction and that zebras tended to protect friendship bonds. Foals and yearlings further interfered if their mother was being threatened, attacked or sexually approached by a stallion. In view of the interferer's behaviours its aim was to prevent iminent interactions or to break off ongoing interactions. This suggests that these interventions were of a protective nature. The interferer's behaviours in both contexts ware very much alike. Mares tended to interfere if their foal/yearling or adult daughter was threathened or aggressed or if a mare friend was being sexually approached by a stallion. This type of intervention was of a protective nature. Stallions in a multi male harem showed a high tendency to interfere in courtship interactions. From the resemblance between interventions in courtship and in aggressive interactions it is concluded that, at leat in a number of cases, the individuals have perceived courtship behaviour by the stallion as a threat towards the mare involved.  
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  Call Number Serial 1565  
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Author BASHORE, T. L.; KEIPER, R.; TURNER ,J. W. JR; KIRKPATRICK J. F. url  openurl
  Title The accuracy of fixed-wing aerial surveys of feral horses on a coastal barrier island Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Journal of coastal research Abbreviated Journal J. coast. res  
  Volume 6 Issue Pages (up) 53-56  
  Keywords Accuracy; Airborne methods; Vegetation; Barrier islands; Maryland; Ground methods; United States; North America; America  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2221  
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Author Heyes, C.M.; Dawson, G.R. openurl 
  Title A demonstration of observational learning in rats using a bidirectional control Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology Abbreviated Journal Q J Exp Psychol B  
  Volume 42 Issue 1 Pages (up) 59-71  
  Keywords appetite; attention; imitation; problem solving; psychomotor performance; Appetitive Behavior; Attention; Imitative Behavior; Problem Solving; Psychomotor Performance  
  Abstract Hungry rats observed a conspecific demonstrator pushing a single manipulandum, a joystick, to the right or to the left for food reward and were then allowed access to the joystick from a different orientation. The effects of right-pushing vs left-pushing observation experience on (1) response acquisition, (2) reversal of a left-right discrimination, and (3) responding in extinction, were examined. Rats that had observed left-pushing made more left responses during acquisition than rats that had observed right-pushing, and rats that had observed demonstrators pushing in the direction that had previously been reinforced took longer to reach criterion reversal and made more responses in extinction than rats that had observed demonstrators pushing in the opposite direction to that previously reinforced. These results provide evidence that rats are capable of learning a response, or a response-reinforcer contingency, through conspecific observation.  
  Address University of Cambridge, U.K.  
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  Notes Cited By (since 1996): 49; Export Date: 17 May 2007; Source: Scopus; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Heyes, C.M. Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 1766  
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Author Heyes CM; Dawson GR openurl 
  Title A demonstration of observational learning using a bidirectional control Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Q. J. Exp. Psychol. Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 42 Issue Pages (up) 59  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 3008  
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Author McCall, C.A. url  openurl
  Title A Review of Learning Behavior in Horses and its Application in Horse Training Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Journal of Animal Science Abbreviated Journal J. Anim Sci.  
  Volume 68 Issue 1 Pages (up) 75-81  
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  Abstract A literature review of the equine learning research conducted in the past 20 yr revealed that the purpose of most of the studies was to determine whether horses respond to learning situations in the same way that other animals do. The results indicated that horses can discriminate many different types of stimuli, and they learn through stimulus-response- reinforcement chains. Most equine learning studies have utilized learning tasks depending on primary positive reinforcement to get the horses to work the tests. Yet, the majority of horse trainers use negative reinforcement more often than primary positive reinforcement in their training procedures. Therefore, past research often did not have a direct application to training methods commonly utilized in the horse industry. Research also demonstrated that 1) early experiences of horses can affect learning ability later, 2) equine memory is efficient and 3) concentrating learning mals in long training sessions decreases equine learning efficiency. Many factors that might affect equine learning ability and be applicable to training practices in the horse industry have not been thoroughly investigated; for example, interactions between nutrition and learning and between exercise and learning, the use of negative and secondary reinforcements in horse training, and the horse's ability to make few initial errors compared to its ability to eliminate errors as training progresses all require investigation in future equine learning studies. N1 -  
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  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 1992  
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Author Boesch C; Boesch H openurl 
  Title Tool use and tool making in wild chimpanzees Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Folia Primatol. Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 54 Issue Pages (up) 86  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2983  
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Author Thouless, C.R. doi  openurl
  Title Feeding competition between grazing red deer hinds Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal Anim. Behav.  
  Volume 40 Issue 1 Pages (up) 105-111  
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  Abstract The effect of social rank on the feeding behaviour of female red deer, Cervus elaphus L., on the Isle of Rhum, Scotland, was investigated. Hinds were less likely to approach and more likely to leave the vicinity of other individuals if these hinds were dominant to them. Movements away by subordinates were more likely to involve a break from feeding. Feeding rate, as measured by bite rate, increased with distance from dominant neighbours, but was unaffected by the distance to subordinates. It appears that aggressive interactions had little direct effect on access to food. Instead, it is suggested that feeding competition in red deer hinds is largely a passive process, operating through the avoidance of conflict by subordinates.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4267  
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Author Chaudhuri, M.; Ginsberg, J.R. doi  openurl
  Title Urinary androgen concentrations and social status in two species of free ranging zebra (Equus burchelli and E. grevyi). Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Journal of Reproduction and Fertility Abbreviated Journal J Reprod Fert  
  Volume 88 Issue Pages (up) 127-133  
  Keywords zebra; testosterone; androgens; territoriality; social behaviour; dominance  
  Abstract In both species of zebra, breeding males had higher urinary androgen concentrations (ng androgens/mg Cr) than did non-breeding bachelor males (30.0 +/- 5.0 (N = 9) versus 11.4 +/- 2.8, (N = 7) in the plains zebra; 19.0 +/- 2.2 (N = 17) versus 10.7 +/- 1.2 (N = 14) in the Grevy's zebra). In the more stable family structure of the plains zebra (single male non-territorial groups) variations in androgen concentrations could not be ascribed to any measured variable. In the Grevy's zebra, androgen values were significantly lower in samples taken from territorial (breeding) males which had temporarily abandoned their territories (N = 4) and the urinary androgen concentration for a male on his territory was negatively correlated with the time since females last visited the territory.  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved yes  
  Call Number Serial 987  
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Author Visalberghi E openurl 
  Title Tool use in Cebus Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Folia Primatol. Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 54 Issue Pages (up) 146  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 3045  
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Author Franke Stevens, E. doi  openurl
  Title Instability of harems of feral horses in relation to season and presence of subordinate stallions Type Journal Article
  Year 1990 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal Behaviour  
  Volume 112 Issue 3-4 Pages (up) 149-161  
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  Abstract Male horses (Equus caballus) defend harems of females (bands) year-round and throughout their lifetimes. A male's lifetime reproductive success depends upon the number of females in his harem. Although harems have previously been reported as remaining stable over many years, during the two years of this study 30 % of the adult females in an island population of feral horses changed harems during late winter. The seasonal differences in harem stability resulted from seasonal differences in the abundance and distribution of food. The spacing between band members was greater and the frequency of social interactions between them was lower in winter than in summer. In addition, the amount of time devoted to grazing increased in winter. These differences are attributed to the lower availability of suitable vegetation duirng winter. Harem stability did not depend on the age of females, the size of the harem, nor the age of the harem stallion, but did depend on the presence of subordinate stallions attached to the band. All of the females that changed bands left single-male bands; multi-male bands were stable throughout the study.  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved yes  
  Call Number Serial 1632  
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