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Author Stanley, C.R.; Dunbar, R.I.M.
Title Consistent social structure and optimal clique size revealed by social network analysis of feral goats, Capra hircus Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2013 Publication Anim Behav Abbreviated Journal
Volume 85 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Stanley2013 Serial 6253
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Author Baciadonna, L.; McElligott, A.G.; Briefer, E.F.
Title Goats favour personal over social information in an experimental foraging task Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2013 Publication Peer J Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Baciadonna2013 Serial 6269
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Author Briefer, E.F.; McElligott, A.G.
Title Rescued goats at a sanctuary display positive mood after former neglect Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2013 Publication Appl Anim Behav Sci Abbreviated Journal
Volume 146 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Briefer2013 Serial 6287
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Title R Foundation for Statistical Computing Type Book Whole
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ ref80 Serial 6295
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Author Healy, S.D.; Rowe, C.
Title Costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain: doubts over the evidence that large brains lead to better cognition Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2013 Publication Anim Behav Abbreviated Journal
Volume 86 Issue Pages
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Healy2013 Serial 6317
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Author Range, F.; Virányi, Z.
Title Wolves are better imitators of conspecifics than dogs Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2014 Publication PLoS One Abbreviated Journal
Volume 9 Issue Pages
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Abstract Domestication is thought to have influenced the cognitive abilities of dogs underlying their communication with humans, but little is known about its effect on their interactions with conspecifics. Since domestication hypotheses offer limited predictions in regard to wolf-wolf compared to dog-dog interactions, we extend the cooperative breeding hypothesis suggesting that the dependency of wolves on close cooperation with conspecifics, including breeding but also territory defense and hunting, has created selection pressures on motivational and cognitive processes enhancing their propensity to pay close attention to conspecifics’ actions. During domestication, dogs’ dependency on conspecifics has been relaxed, leading to reduced motivational and cognitive abilities to interact with conspecifics. Here we show that 6-month-old wolves outperform same aged dogs in a two-action-imitation task following a conspecific demonstration. While the wolves readily opened the apparatus after a demonstration, the dogs failed to solve the problem. This difference could not be explained by differential motivation, better physical insight of wolves, differential developmental pathways of wolves and dogs or a higher dependency of dogs from humans. Our results are best explained by the hypothesis that higher cooperativeness may come together with a higher propensity to pay close attention to detailed actions of others and offer an alternative perspective to domestication by emphasizing the cooperativeness of wolves as a potential source of dog-human cooperation.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Range2014 Serial 6246
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Author Briefer, E.F.; Haque, S.; Baciadonna, L.; McElligott, A.G.
Title Goats excel at learning and remembering a highly novel cognitive task Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2014 Publication Frontiers in Zoology Abbreviated Journal Front. Zool.
Volume 11 Issue 1 Pages 20
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Abstract The computational demands of sociality (maintaining group cohesion, reducing conflict) and ecological problems (extractive foraging, memorizing resource locations) are the main drivers proposed to explain the evolution cognition. Different predictions follow, about whether animals would preferentially learn new tasks socially or not, but the prevalent view today is that intelligent species should excel at social learning. However, the predictions were originally used to explain primate cognition, and studies of species with relatively smaller brains are rare. By contrast, domestication has often led to a decrease in brain size, which could affect cognition. In domestic animals, the relaxed selection pressures compared to a wild environment could have led to reduced social and physical cognition. Goats possess several features commonly associated with advanced cognition, such as successful colonization of new environments and complex fission-fusion societies. Here, we assessed goat social and physical cognition as well as long-term memory of a complex two-step foraging task (food box cognitive challenge), in order to investigate some of the main selection pressures thought to affect the evolution of ungulate cognition.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Briefer2014 Serial 6376
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