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Author Bertolucci, C.; Giannetto, C.; Fazio, F.; Piccione, G. doi  openurl
  Title Seasonal variations in daily rhythms of activity in athletic horses Type Journal Article
  Year 2008 Publication (down) Animal Abbreviated Journal Animal  
  Volume 2 Issue 07 Pages 1055-1060  
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  Abstract Circadian rhythms reflect extensive programming of biological activity that meets and exploits the challenges and opportunities offered by the periodic nature of the environment. In the present investigation, we recorded the total activity of athletic horses kept at four different times of the year (vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox and winter solstice), to evaluate the presence of seasonal variations of daily activity rhythms. Athletic Thoroughbred horses were kept in individual boxes with paddock. Digitally integrated measure of total activity of each mare was continuously recorded by actigraphy-based data loggers. Horse total activities were not evenly distributed over the day, but they were mainly diurnal during the year. Daily activity rhythms showed clear seasonal variations, with the highest daily amount of activity during the vernal equinox and the lowest during the winter solstice. Interestingly, the amount of activity during either photophase or scotophase changed significantly throughout the year. Circadian analysis of horse activities showed that the acrophase, the estimated time at which the peak of the rhythm occurs, did not change during the year, it always occurred in the middle of the photoperiod. Analysing the time structure of long-term and continuously measured activity and feeding could be a useful method to critically evaluate athletic horse management systems in which spontaneous locomotor activity and feeding are severely limited. Circadian rhythms are present in several elements of sensory motor and psychomotor functions and these would be taken into consideration to plan the training schedules and competitions in athletic horses.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4823  
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Author Ramseyer, A.; Boissy, A.; Thierry, B.; Dumont, B. doi  openurl
  Title Individual and social determinants of spontaneous group movements in cattle and sheep Type Journal Article
  Year 2009 Publication (down) animal Abbreviated Journal Animal  
  Volume 3 Issue 09 Pages 1319-1326 M3 - 10.1017/S1751731109004790  
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  Abstract Group-living animals travel together to collectively exploit the resources of their environment. This study investigates how social relationships and individual temperament traits affect movement orders in domestic cattle and sheep. We analysed spontaneous group movements occurring at pasture after a resting period in a group of 15 18-month-old Charolais heifers and a group of 19 1-year-old Romane ewe-lambs. For each species, animals had similar social experience and no kinship ties. Before that, animals were observed within the group to establish their social status (e.g. dominance and preferential relationships, and sociability), then in individual tests in order to assess their emotional traits. In both species, most individuals could initiate a group movement but some individuals were more successful than others in recruiting the rest of the group. Ewe-lambs, and to a lesser extent heifers, held preferential positions during travel. We did not find any significant correlations in either species between animal order and their position in the dominance hierarchy (heifers: P = 0.438; ewe-lambs: P = 0.574) while individuals linked by preferential bonds frequently followed each other during group movements (heifers: P < 0.001; ewe-lambs: P < 0.001). With regard to social traits, heifers with a low cohesion index, and with a lower number of partners with whom they develop frequent affinitive interactions, acted more frequently as ‘first movers’ (P = 0.040 and 0.023, respectively), as well as did ewe-lambs with a high spatial independency index (P = 0.002). Ewe-lambs with the highest cohesion indices were more frequently observed in front of the group while moving halfway between departure and arrival (P = 0.028). We did not find significant correlations between individual positions during group movements and emotional traits such as reactivity, boldness and fearfulness. We conclude that preferential bonds and individual traits related to social dependence were more influential in spontaneous group movements at pasture than were emotional traits and dominance status.  
  Address group movement; group order; social relationship; temperament; ungulates  
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  ISSN 1751-7311 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5047  
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Author Burla, J.-B.; Siegwart, J.; Nawroth, C. doi  openurl
  Title Human Demonstration Does Not Facilitate the Performance of Horses (Equus caballus) in a Spatial Problem-Solving Task Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication (down) Animal Abbreviated Journal Animal  
  Volume 8 Issue 6 Pages 96  
  Keywords detour task; equids; social cognition; social learning; spatial cognition  
  Abstract Horses’ ability to adapt to new environments and to acquire new information plays an important role in handling and training. Social learning in particular would be very adaptive for horses as it enables them to flexibly adjust to new environments. In the context of horse handling, social learning from humans has been rarely investigated but could help to facilitate management practices. We assessed the impact of human demonstration on the spatial problem-solving abilities of horses during a detour task. In this task, a bucket with a food reward was placed behind a double-detour barrier and 16 horses were allocated to two test groups of 8 horses each. One group received a human demonstration of how to solve the spatial task while the other group received no demonstration. We found that horses did not solve the detour task more often or faster with human demonstration. However, both test groups improved rapidly over trials. Our results suggest that horses prefer to use individual rather than social information when solving a spatial problem-solving task  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6392  
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Author Berliner Vr, openurl 
  Title The estrous cycle of the mare. In: Cole,H.H., Cupps,P.T. Type Journal Article
  Year 1959 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Reproductions in domestic animals  
  Volume 1 Issue Pages 267-289  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 942  
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Author Bruemmer F, openurl 
  Title The horses of Sable Island Type Journal Article
  Year 1967 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Animals  
  Volume 10 Issue Pages 14-17  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 975  
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Author Epstein H, openurl 
  Title Descent and origin of the ass Type Book Chapter
  Year 1971 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal In Epstein: The origin of the domestic animals of Africa. II.  
  Volume Issue Pages 394-398  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 1069  
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Author Epstein H, openurl 
  Title Wild Ass Type Journal Article
  Year 1971 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal In Epstein: The origin of the domestic animals of Africa. II  
  Volume Issue Pages 378-381  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 1070  
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Author Fao, openurl 
  Title The Przewalski horse and restoration to its natural habitat in Mongolia. JO FAO Animal Production and Health Paper Type Journal Article
  Year 1986 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal Animal Production and Health Paper  
  Volume 61 Issue Pages  
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  Notes from Prof. Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 1078  
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Author Klingel H, openurl 
  Title Communication in Perissodactyla Type Book Chapter
  Year 1977 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal in Sebeok TA (ed): How Animals Communicate  
  Volume Issue Pages 715-727,  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 1305  
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Author OTT EA et al, openurl 
  Title Acceptability of dried citrus pulp by horses Type Journal Article
  Year 1979 Publication (down) Abbreviated Journal J Animal Sci  
  Volume 49 Issue Pages 983-987  
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  Notes from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List Approved no  
  Call Number Serial 1442  
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