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Author | Shettleworth, S.J.; Krebs, J.R. | ||||
Title | How marsh tits find their hoards: the roles of site preference and spatial memory | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes | Abbreviated Journal | J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process |
Volume | 8 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 354-375 |
Keywords | Animals; *Appetitive Behavior; Birds; Cues; Discrimination Learning; *Memory; *Mental Recall; *Orientation; *Space Perception | ||||
Abstract | Marsh tits (Parus palustris) store single food items in scattered locations and recover them hours or days later. Some properties of the spatial memory involved were analyzed in two laboratory experiments. In the first, marsh tits were offered 97 sites for storing 12 seeds. They recovered a median of 65% of them 2-3 hr later, making only two errors per seed while doing so. Over trials, they used some sites more often than others, but during recovery they were more likely to visit a site of any preference value if they had stored a seed there that day than if they had not. Recovery performance was much worse if the experimenters moved the seeds between storage and recovery. A fixed search strategy that had some of the same average properties as the tits' search behavior also did worse than the real birds. In Experiment 2, any tendency to visit the same sites on successive daily tests in the aviary was placed in opposition to memory for storage sites by allowing the tits to store more seeds 2 hr after storing a first batch. They tended to avoid individual storage sites holding seeds from the first batch. When the tits searched for all the seeds 2 hr later, they tended to recover more seeds from the second batch than from the first, i.e., there was a recency effect. | ||||
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ISSN | 0097-7403 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:7175447 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 385 | ||
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Author | Alexander, D.J. | ||||
Title | Ecological aspects of influenza A viruses in animals and their relationship to human influenza: a review | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine | Abbreviated Journal | J R Soc Med |
Volume | 75 | Issue | 10 | Pages | 799-811 |
Keywords | Animals; *Animals, Domestic; Bird Diseases/transmission; Birds; Disease Outbreaks; Ecology; Horse Diseases/transmission; Horses; Humans; Influenza A virus/genetics/isolation & purification; Influenza, Human/microbiology/*transmission/veterinary; Swine; Swine Diseases/transmission; Zoonoses/transmission | ||||
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ISSN | 0141-0768 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:6752410 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2689 | ||
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Author | Tobin, T.; Combie, J.D. | ||||
Title | Performance testing in horses: a review of the role of simple behavioral models in the design of performance experiments | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics | Abbreviated Journal | J Vet Pharmacol Ther |
Volume | 5 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 105-118 |
Keywords | Analgesics, Opioid/pharmacology; Animals; Apomorphine/pharmacology; Behavior, Animal/*drug effects; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Fentanyl/pharmacology; Horses/*physiology; Methylphenidate/pharmacology; *Models, Biological; Motor Activity/drug effects | ||||
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ISSN | 0140-7783 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:6125601 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 1957 | ||
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Author | Houpt, K.A.; Parsons, M.S.; Hintz, H.F. | ||||
Title | Learning ability of orphan foals, of normal foals and of their mothers | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of animal science | Abbreviated Journal | J. Anim Sci. |
Volume | 55 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 1027-1032 |
Keywords | Age Factors; Animals; Body Weight; Dominance-Subordination; Female; Horses/*physiology; *Learning; *Maternal Deprivation; Mothers/*psychology | ||||
Abstract | The maze learning ability of six pony foals that had been weaned at birth was compared to that of six foals reared normally. The foals' learning ability was also compared to their mothers' learning ability at the same task; the correct turn in a single choice point maze. The maze learning test was conducted when the foals were 6 to 8 mo old and after the mothered foals had been weaned. There was no significant difference between the ability of orphaned (weaned at birth) and mothered foals in their ability to learn to turn left (6 +/- .7 and 5.1 +/- .1 trials, respectively) or to learn the reversal, to turn right (6.7 +/- .6 and 6.2 +/- .6 trials, respectively). The orphan foals spent significantly more time in the maze in their first exposure to it than the mothered foals (184 +/- 42 vs 55 +/- 15 s. Mann Whitney U = 7, P less than .05). The mothers of the foals (n = 11) learned to turn left as rapidly as the foals (5.9 +/- .7 trials), but they were slower to learn to turn right (9.8 +/- 1.4 vs 6.4 +/- .4 trials, Mann Whitney U = 33, P less than .05), indicating that the younger horses learned more rapidly. There was no correlation between the trials to criteria of the mare and those of her foal, but there was a significant negative correlation between rank in trials to criteria and age (r = -65, P less than .05) when data from the mare and foal trials were combined. The dominance hierarchy of the mares was determined using a paired feeding test in which two horses competed for one bucket of feed. Although there was no correlation between rank in the hierarchy and maze learning ability, there was a correlation between body weight and rank in the hierarchy (r = .7, P less than .05). This may indicate either that heavier horses are likely to be dominant or that horses high in dominance gain more weight. Maternal deprivation did not appear to seriously retard learning of a simple maze by foals, although the orphans moved more slowly initially. The lack of maternal influence on learning is also reflected in the lack of correlation between the mare's learning ability and that of her foal. Young horses appear to learn more rapidly than older horses. | ||||
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ISSN | 0021-8812 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:7174546 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 58 | ||
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Author | Stahl, F.; Dorner, G. | ||||
Title | Responses of salivary cortisol levels to stress-situations | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Endokrinologie | Abbreviated Journal | Endokrinologie |
Volume | 80 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 158-162 |
Keywords | Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/diagnostic use; Anxiety Disorders/metabolism; Circadian Rhythm; Cushing Syndrome/metabolism; Fear/physiology; Female; Humans; Hydrocortisone/*metabolism; Male; Pain/metabolism; Pregnancy; Saliva/*metabolism; Stress/*metabolism | ||||
Abstract | A procedure is described for determining salivary cortisol levels by a competitive protein-binding assay using horse transcortin. The collection of saliva was performed by means of filter paper-strips. Filter paper samples are more than 5 days stable after air-drying. In this form, the samples could be stored without refrigerator or deep-freezer and, if necessary, sent by post to the laboratory without any special precaution. Stressful situation of either painful or anxious origin were associated with an adequate increase of salivary cortisol levels. The increases were 157 to 230% of the initial or normal values dependent on the kind of stress. The mean values in 4 cases of Cushing's syndrome were 380% and 1 hour after 25 I.U. ACTH 690% higher than those in normal persons. In normal persons, a well-defined circadian rhythm has been observed. | ||||
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ISSN | 0013-7251 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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Notes | PMID:6297880 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 4056 | ||
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Author | Steiner, M. | ||||
Title | Biomechanics of tendon healing | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of Biomechanics | Abbreviated Journal | J Biomech |
Volume | 15 | Issue | 12 | Pages | 951-958 |
Keywords | Achilles Tendon/injuries; Animals; Biomechanics; Rats; Tendon Injuries/pathology/*physiopathology; Tensile Strength; Time Factors; *Wound Healing | ||||
Abstract | The biomechanics of tendon healing was investigated with unsutured rat achilles tendons. After two, three, and four weeks of healing tensile parameters were assayed with a bone-muscle-tendon-bone preparation elongated to failure at a controlled physiological strain rate. In the third week of healing, stiffness, strength, and energy absorbing capacity all increased approximately 50%. These changes correlated with early fibroplasia. In the fourth week of healing, strength, energy absorbing capacity and elongation to failure all increased relatively more than stiffness. Histologically, larger fibers with better longitudinal alignment developed during this period. At the end of four weeks the tendon's strength was approximately 25% of normal. To summarize, the return of stiffness in a healing tendon preparation correlated with the presence of fibroplasia and the return of other tensile parameters was a function of the amount and organization of the fibroplasia. | ||||
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Notes | PMID:7166555 | Approved | no | ||
Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4448 | ||
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Author | Churcher, C. S. | ||||
Title | Oldest Ass Recovered from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and the Origin of Asses | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of Paleontology | Abbreviated Journal | J. Paleontol. |
Volume | 56 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 1124-1132 |
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Abstract | Abstract An isolated right metatarsal III from an adult small monodactyl equid was recovered in situ from the middle of Bed II at Evelyn Fuchs-Hans Reck Korongo, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in 1963. Interosseous contacts for splint metatarsals II and IV are less evident than in any modern comparative Equus metapodials in Leiden, Holland, London, England or in the field in Africa: horses (E. caballus), zebras (E. burchellii, E. grevyi, E. quagga) and asses (E. a. asinus, E. a. africanus), of which the horses and asses were domesticates. The specimen is provisionally assigned to Equus (Asinus) asinus. The estimated height at the shoulders is less than a meter for the animal in life, comparable to a small donkey. |
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Author | Gless, K | ||||
Title | Das Pferd im Militärwesen | Type | Book Whole | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Militärverlag der DDR | Abbreviated Journal | |
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Abstract | Der Autor beschreibt die Verwendung und den Werdegang des Pferdes im Militärwesen während der letzten 4000 Jahre – beginnend bei den Hethitern im 17. Jahrhundert vor Christus bis nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg... Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung, Streitwagen und Pferdebogner, Von Xenophon bis Mohammed, Ritterschaft und Mongolenheere, Von den Hussiten bis zu den Budjonnyreitern, Literatur, Sachwortregister | ||||
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Publisher | Militärverlag der DDR | Place of Publication | Berlin | Editor | |
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 409 | ||
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Author | Houpt, K.A.; Keiper, R. | ||||
Title | The position of the stallion in the equine dominance hierarchy of feral and domestic ponies. | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Journal of Animal Science | Abbreviated Journal | J. Anim Sci |
Volume | 54 | Issue | 5 | Pages | 945-950 |
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Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 668 | ||
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Author | Arnold Gw, G.A. | ||||
Title | Ethogram of agonistic behaviour for thoroughbred horses | Type | Journal Article | ||
Year | 1982 | Publication | Applied Animal Ethology | Abbreviated Journal | Appl. Animal. Ethol. |
Volume | 8 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 5-25 |
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Abstract | Social interactions between individual horses were observed in two herds each comprising a stallion and a number of mares. In one herd, the animals were observed whilst grazing and resting; in the other, nearest neighbours were recorded when the animals were grazing, and social interactions were noted when the animals were feeding on hay. In both herds, the horses showed marked preferences for the company of specific individuals when they were grazing. In one herd, the associations were mainly between individuals that had been associated prior to being put in the herd. In the other herd, this was not the case. A new statistic was produced for testing for specific company preference. In both herds, the stallion was dominant over all mares and never received any aggression. The complete social hierarchy could not be determined for the herd which was observed only when grazing because social contact was restricted to that within groups or pairs that associated together. In the herd to which hay was fed, a non-linear hierarchy existed. Statistics were produced to quantify both the general level of dominance of a horse and its specific dominance or subordination to every other horse. It is suggested that these statistics, and one for quantifying the general aggressiveness of a horse, could be widely used. A principal component analysis allowed the horses to be characterised socially according to aggressiveness, their attitude to other horses and their attractiveness to other horses. |
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Notes | from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List | Approved | no | ||
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