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| Author | Hoffmann, G.; Bentke, A.; Rose-Meierhöfer, S.; Berg, W.; Mazetti, P.; Hardarson, G.H. | ||||
| Title | Influence of an active stable system on the behavior and body condition of Icelandic horses | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2012 | Publication | animal | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 6 | Issue  |
10 | Pages | 1684-1693 |
| Keywords | activity, automatic feeding system, behavior, body condition score, Icelandic horse | ||||
| Abstract | Horses are often stabled in individual boxes, a method that does not meet their natural needs and may cause psychical and musculoskeletal diseases. This problem is particularly evident in Iceland, where horses often spend the long winter periods in cramped boxes. The aim of this study was to analyze the suitability of a group housing system in Iceland, but the results are also applicable to horses of other regions. Eight Icelandic horses were observed in an active stable system, and their behavior and time budget were recorded. Movement and lying behavior were studied with ALT (Activity, Lying, Temperature detection) pedometers. The effect of an automatic concentrate feeding station (CFS) on the horses’ behavior was examined. In the first period of investigation, the horses were fed concentrates manually, and in the second period, they were fed with the CFS. Additional behavioral observations and a determination of social hierarchy occurred directly or by video surveillance. The physical condition of the horses was recorded by body weight (BW) measurement and body condition scoring (BCS). The results showed a significant increase between the first and second trial periods in both the activity (P,0.001) and the lying time (P50.003) of the horses with use of the CFS. However, there was no significant change in BW during the first period without the CFS (P50.884) or during the second period with the CFS (P50.540). The BCS of the horses was constant at a very good level during both trial periods, and the horses showed a low level of aggression, a firm social hierarchy and behavioral synchronization. This study concludes that group housing according to the active stable principle is a welfare-friendly option for keeping horses and is a suitable alternative to conventional individual boxes. |
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| Publisher | Cambridge Journals Online | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
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| ISSN | 1751-732x | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | Approved | no | |||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5759 | ||
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| Author | Cancedda, M. | ||||
| Title | [Social and behavioral organization of horses on the Giara (Sardinia): distribution and aggregation] | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1990 | Publication | Bollettino della Societa italiana di biologia sperimentale | Abbreviated Journal | Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper |
| Volume | 66 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 1089-1096 |
| Keywords | Animals; *Animals, Wild/physiology/psychology; Environment; Female; *Horses/physiology/psychology; Italy; Male; Population Density; Sexual Behavior, Animal; *Social Behavior; Social Dominance; Water | ||||
| Abstract | In this paper some considerations on the environment of the 42 Kmq of the volcanic-basaltic Giara tableland are discussed. Conditioning by the environment and its effect on the distribution of a population of 712 horses is illustrated in view of their social and behavioural organization. | ||||
| Address | Istituto di Fisiologia Generale e Speciale, Universita di Sassari | ||||
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| Language | Italian | Summary Language | Original Title | Introduzione all'organizzazione sociale e comportamentale dei cavallini sulla Giara (Sardegna): distribuzione ed aggregazione | |
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| ISSN | 0037-8771 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:2095819 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 673 | ||
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| Author | McDonnell, S.M.; Freeman, D.A.; Cymbaluk, N.F.; Schott, H.C. 2nd; Hinchcliff, K.; Kyle, B. | ||||
| Title | Behavior of stabled horses provided continuous or intermittent access to drinking water | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1999 | Publication | American Journal of Veterinary Research | Abbreviated Journal | Am J Vet Res |
| Volume | 60 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 1451-1456 |
| Keywords | Aggression; Animal Husbandry; Animals; Behavior, Animal/*physiology; Drinking Behavior; Feeding Behavior; Female; Horses/*physiology/*psychology; Housing, Animal; Pregnancy; Pregnancy, Animal/physiology/*psychology; Social Behavior; Videotape Recording; *Water Supply | ||||
| Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To compare quantitative measures and clinical assessments of behavior as an indication of psychologic well-being of stabled horses provided drinking water continuously or via 1 of 3 intermittent delivery systems. ANIMALS: 22 Quarter Horse (QH) or QH-crossbred mares and 17 Belgian or Belgian-crossbred mares (study 1) and 24 QH or QH-crossbred mares and 18 Belgian or Belgian-crossbred mares (study 2). PROCEDURE: Stabled horses were provided water continuously or via 1 of 3 intermittent water delivery systems in 2 study periods during a 2-year period. Continuous 24-hour videotaped samples were used to compare quantitative measures and clinical assessments of behavior among groups provided water by the various water delivery systems. RESULTS: All horses had clinically normal behavior. Significant differences in well being were not detected among groups provided water by the various delivery systems. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Various continuous and intermittent water delivery systems can provide adequately for the psychologic well-being of stabled horses. | ||||
| Address | New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square 19348, USA | ||||
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| Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| ISSN | 0002-9645 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:10566826 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 1928 | ||
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| Author | Ordakowski-Burk, A.L.; Quinn, R.W.; Shellem, T.A.; Vough, L.R. | ||||
| Title | Voluntary intake and digestibility of reed canarygrass and timothy hay fed to horses | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Journal of Animal Science | Abbreviated Journal | J. Anim Sci. |
| Volume | 84 | Issue |
11 | Pages | 3104-3109 |
| Keywords | Animal Feed/*analysis; Animal Nutrition Physiology; Animals; Diet/*veterinary; Digestion/*physiology; Feeding Behavior/*physiology; Horses/*physiology; Male; Poaceae/*metabolism | ||||
| Abstract | Thousands of hectares of timothy (Phleum pretense L.) grown in the Mid-Atlantic region are infected by cereal rust mite (Abacarus hysterix) that causes discoloration and curling of leaves, decreased nutritional quality, and substantial decreases in yield. A decline in production of timothy hay can lower income for hay producers and cause horse owners to search for alternative hays. Low alkaloid reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) hay has potential as an alternative to timothy hay because it grows well in the Mid-Atlantic region, is believed to have a similar nutrient quality to timothy, and is not as susceptible to cereal rust mite. Eleven mature, stalled Thoroughbred geldings (549 +/- 12.1 kg) that were exercised daily were used to compare voluntary DMI and apparent nutrient DM digestibility of timothy and low-alkaloid Chiefton variety reed canarygrass hay. Horses were paired by age and BW and randomly assigned to timothy or reed canarygrass hay during a 14-d period to measure voluntary DMI followed by a 4-d period to measure apparent DM digestibility. Both hays met the minimum requirements for DE, CP, Ca, P, K, Fe, and Mn, but they did not meet the minimum requirements for Cu, Zn, and Na for horses at maintenance and averaging 550 kg of BW. Timothy hay seemed to have a lower CP concentration (14.4%) compared with reed canarygrass hay (17.1%) and a more desirable Ca:P ratio at 1.6:1 compared with 0.8:1 for reed canarygrass hay. Horses fed timothy consumed more hay (P <0.001) during the voluntary DMI period compared with horses fed reed canarygrass. Greater voluntary DMI of timothy occurred on d 1, 3, and 5 (P <0.05), but DMI was similar for other days. Apparent DM digestibility was greater in horses fed timothy hay by 9.6% compared with horses fed reed canarygrass hay (P <0.05). Horses fed timothy had greater DM digestibility of ADF (P = 0.001), NDF (P = 0.001), sugar (P = 0.05), and Ca (P = 0.001) but lower apparent DM digestibility of CP (P = 0.012) and crude fat (P = 0.004). Timothy hay was superior in voluntary DMI and apparent DM digestibility compared with low-alkaloid reed canarygrass hay fed to horses. | ||||
| Address | Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA. amyburk@umd.edu | ||||
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| Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| ISSN | 1525-3163 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:17032805 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4236 | ||
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| Author | Puppe, B. | ||||
| Title | [Social dominance and rank relationships in domestic pigs: a critical review] | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1996 | Publication | Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift | Abbreviated Journal | Berl Munch Tierarztl Wochenschr |
| Volume | 109 | Issue |
11-12 | Pages | 457-464 |
| Keywords | Animals; Animals, Domestic; Animals, Wild; Female; Male; Models, Psychological; *Social Behavior; *Social Dominance; Swine/*psychology | ||||
| Abstract | Viewing dominance as an attribute of repeated agonistic interactions between two individuals, the present paper reviews theoretical approaches towards concepts of dominance, methods of measurement, and basic principles and problems connected with social dominance in domestic pigs. Domestic pigs are able to establish social organization structures during all stages of their ontogeny. According to definition, dominance relationships occur when a consistent asymmetry of the result of dyadic agonistic interactions can be assessed. This must not necessarily be connected immediately with a better availability of resources, or a high stability of existing dominance relationships, or a functional definition of dominance. When sociometric characteristics are calculated, it seems to be appropriate to use them for different levels of a biological system (individual, individual pair, group). Investigations of social behaviour and dominance in farm animals should take into account that mechanisms of social behaviour in confined environments are often carried out in parts only. Connections of the dominance concept with other concepts of behavioural regulation should be theoretically considered and further investigated by experimental studies. | ||||
| Address | Forschungsbereich Physiologische Grundlagen der Tierhaltung des Forschungsinstituts fur die Biologie landwirtschaftlicher Nutztiere Dummerstorf-Rostock | ||||
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| Language | German | Summary Language | Original Title | Soziale Dominanz- und Rangbeziehungen beim Hausschwein: eine kritische Ubersicht | |
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| ISSN | 0005-9366 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:8999780 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2861 | ||
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| Author | Curtis, S.E.; Stricklin, W.R. | ||||
| Title | The importance of animal cognition in agricultural animal production systems: an overview | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1991 | Publication | Journal of Animal Science | Abbreviated Journal | J. Anim Sci. |
| Volume | 69 | Issue |
12 | Pages | 5001-5007 |
| Keywords | *Agriculture; Animal Population Groups/*psychology; *Animal Welfare; Animals; *Behavior, Animal; *Cognition; Heat; Helplessness, Learned; Housing, Animal/standards; Immobilization; Nesting Behavior; Pain/psychology/veterinary | ||||
| Abstract | To describe and then fulfill agricultural animals' needs, we must learn more about their fundamental psychological and behavioral processes. How does this animal feel? Is that animal suffering? Will we ever be able to know these things? Scientists specializing in animal cognition say that there are numerous problems but that they can be overcome. Recognition by scientists of the notion of animal awareness has been increasing in recent years, because of the work of Griffin and others. Feeling, thinking, remembering, and imagining are cognitive processes that are factors in the economic and humane production of agricultural animals. It has been observed that the animal welfare debate depends on two controversial questions: Do animals have subjective feelings? If they do, can we find indicators that reveal them? Here, indirect behavioral analysis approaches must be taken. Moreover, the linear additivity of several stressor effects on a variety of animal traits suggests that some single phenomenon is acting as a “clearinghouse” for many or all of the stresses acting on an animal at any given time, and this phenomenon might be psychological stress. Specific situations animals may encounter in agricultural production settings are discussed with respect to the animals' subjective feelings. | ||||
| Address | University of Illinois, Urbana 61801 | ||||
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| ISSN | 0021-8812 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:1808193 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2754 | ||
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| Author | Dugatkin, L.A. | ||||
| Title | Animal cooperation among unrelated individuals | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2002 | Publication | Die Naturwissenschaften | Abbreviated Journal | Naturwissenschaften |
| Volume | 89 | Issue |
12 | Pages | 533-541 |
| Keywords | Animals; Phylogeny; *Social Behavior; Species Specificity | ||||
| Abstract | The evolution of cooperation has long been a topic near and dear to the hearts of behavioral and evolutionary ecologists. Cooperative behaviors run the gamut from fairly simple to very complicated and there are a myriad of ways to study cooperation. Here I shall focus on three paths that have been delineated in the study of intraspecific cooperation among unrelated individuals: reciprocity, byproduct mutualism, and group selection. In each case, I attempt to delineate the theory underlying each of these paths and then provide examples from the empirical literature. In addition, I shall briefly touch upon some recent work that has attempted to examine (or re-examine) the role of cognition and phylogeny in the study of cooperative behavior. While empirical and theoretical work has made significant strides in the name of better understanding the evolution and maintenance of cooperative behavior in animals, much work remains for the future. “From the point of view of the moralist, the animal world is on about the same level as the gladiator's show. The creatures are fairly well treated, and set to fight; whereby the strongest, the swiftest and the cunningest live to fight another day. The spectator has no need to turn his thumb down, as no quarter is given em leader the weakest and the stupidest went to the wall, while the toughest and the shrewdest, those who were best fitted to cope with their circumstances, but not the best in any other way, survived. Life was a continuous free fight, and em leader a war of each against all was the normal state of existence.” (Huxley 1888) | ||||
| Address | Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA. lee.dugatkin@louisville.edu | ||||
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| ISSN | 0028-1042 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:12536274 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2797 | ||
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| Author | Byrne, R.W.; Bates, L.A. | ||||
| Title | Why are animals cognitive? | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2006 | Publication | Current Biology : CB | Abbreviated Journal | Curr Biol |
| Volume | 16 | Issue |
12 | Pages | R445-8 |
| Keywords | Animals; Arachnida/physiology; *Association Learning; *Behavior, Animal; *Cognition; Cooperative Behavior; Falconiformes/physiology; Pan troglodytes/physiology; Parrots/physiology; Passeriformes/physiology | ||||
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| Address | Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, and Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, Scotland | ||||
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| ISSN | 0960-9822 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:16781995 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4708 | ||
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| Author | Mouritsen, K.N. | ||||
| Title | Hitch-hiking parasite: a dark horse may be the real rider | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2001 | Publication | International Journal for Parasitology | Abbreviated Journal | Int J Parasitol |
| Volume | 31 | Issue |
13 | Pages | 1417-1420 |
| Keywords | Animals; *Behavior, Animal; Ecology; Host-Parasite Relations; Snails/*parasitology; Trematoda/growth & development/*physiology; Trematode Infections/transmission | ||||
| Abstract | Many parasites engaged in complex life cycles manipulate their hosts in a way that facilitates transmission between hosts. Recently, a new category of parasites (hitch-hikers) has been identified that seem to exploit the manipulating effort of other parasites with similar life cycle by preferentially infecting hosts already manipulated. Thomas et al. (Evolution 51 (1997) 1316) showed that the digenean trematodes Microphallus papillorobustus (the manipulator) and Maritrema subdolum (the hitch-hiker) were positively associated in field samples of gammarid amphipods (the intermediate host), and that the behaviour of Maritrema subdolum rendered it more likely to infect manipulated amphipods than those uninfected by M. papillorobustus. Here I provide experimental evidence demonstrating that M. subdolum is unlikely to be a hitch-hiker in the mentioned system, whereas the lucky candidate rather is the closely related but little known species, Microphallidae sp. no. 15 (Parassitologia 22 (1980) 1). As opposed to the latter species, Maritrema subdolum does not express the appropriate cercarial behaviour for hitch-hiking. | ||||
| Address | Department of Marine Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Finlandsgade 14, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. kim.mouritsen@stonebow.otago.ac.nz | ||||
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| ISSN | 0020-7519 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:11595227 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2645 | ||
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| Author | Dugatkin, L.A.; Godin, J.G. | ||||
| Title | Reversal of female mate choice by copying in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1992 | Publication | Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society | Abbreviated Journal | Proc Biol Sci |
| Volume | 249 | Issue |
1325 | Pages | 179-184 |
| Keywords | Acclimatization; Animals; *Choice Behavior; Female; Male; Poecilia; *Sexual Behavior, Animal | ||||
| Abstract | Ever since Fisher (1958) formalized models of sexual selection, female mate choice has been assumed to be a genetically determined trait. Females, however, may also use social cues to select mates. One such cue might be the mate choice of conspecifics. Here we report the first direct evidence that a female's preference for a particular male can in fact be reversed by social cues. In our experiments using the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata), this reversal was mediated by mate-copying opportunities, such that a female (the 'focal' female) is given the opportunity to choose between two males, followed by a period in which she observes a second female (the 'model' female) displaying a preference for the male she herself did not prefer initially. When allowed to choose between the same males a second time, compared with control tests, a significant proportion of focal females reversed their mate choice and copied the preference of the model female. These results provide strong evidence for the role of non-genetic factors in sexual selection and underlie the need for new models of sexual selection that explicitly incorporate both genetic and cultural aspects of mate choice. | ||||
| Address | Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada | ||||
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| ISSN | 0962-8452 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:1360679 | Approved | no | ||
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