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Author Hinz, K.; Sennet, S.; Maros, K.; Krueger, K. isbn  openurl
  Title Waiting behaviour in front of a computerized feeding system in an active stable – Effects on heart rate, heart rate variability and sensory laterality in horses Type Book Chapter
  Year 2015 Publication Current research in applied ethology [Aktuelle Arbeiten zur artgemäßen Tierhaltung Abbreviated Journal  
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  Keywords computerized feeding, waiting situation, stress, horse  
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  Publisher KTBL-Schrift 510 Place of Publication Darmstadt Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3-945088-13-5 Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5927  
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Author Farmer, K.; Krueger, K.; Byrne, R. pdf  url
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  Title Visual laterality in the domestic horse (Equus caballus) interacting with humans Type Journal Article
  Year 2010 Publication Animal Cognition Abbreviated Journal Anim. Cogn.  
  Volume 13 Issue (up) Pages 229-238  
  Keywords Horse – Laterality – Eye preference – Emotion – Vision  
  Abstract Most horses have a side on which they are easier to handle and a direction they favour when working on a circle, and recent studies have suggested a correlation between emotion and visual laterality when horses observe inanimate objects. As such lateralisation could provide important clues regarding the horse’s cognitive processes, we investigated whether horses also show laterality in association with people. We gave horses the choice of entering a chute to left or right, with and without the passive, non-interactive presence of a person unknown to them. The left eye was preferred for scanning under both conditions, but significantly more so when a person was present. Traditionally, riders handle horses only from the left, so we repeated the experiment with horses specifically trained on both sides. Again, there was a consistent preference for left eye scanning in the presence of a person, whether known to the horses or not. We also examined horses interacting with a person, using both traditionally and bilaterally trained horses. Both groups showed left eye preference for viewing the person, regardless of training and test procedure. For those horses tested under both passive and interactive conditions, the left eye was preferred significantly more during interaction. We suggest that most horses prefer to use their left eye for assessment and evaluation, and that there is an emotional aspect to the choice which may be positive or negative, depending on the circumstances. We believe these results have important practical implications and that emotional laterality should be taken into account in training methods.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4953  
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Author Krueger, K.; Lerbs, S. isbn  openurl
  Title Die Schiefe, und die motorische sowie sensorische Lateralität des Pferdes Type Conference Article
  Year 2013 Publication Jahrestagung der DVG, Fachgruppe: Tierschutz & Ethologie und Tierhaltung Umwelt und Tierhygiene Abbreviated Journal  
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  ISSN ISBN ISBN 978-3-86345-177-6 Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5951  
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Author Krueger, K. isbn  openurl
  Title Die Bedeutung der Schiefe, Händigkeit und sensorische Lateralität der Pferde Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication Pferdetage Baden-Württemberg 2014 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Publisher Matthaes Medien Place of Publication Stuttgart Editor  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3-938053-11-9 Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5952  
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Author Krueger, K. url  isbn
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  Title “Erfasst” das Pferd die menschliche Psyche" Type Book Chapter
  Year 2010 Publication Pferdegestützte Therapie bei psychischen Erkrankungen Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue (up) Pages 40-51  
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  Publisher Schattauer Verlag Place of Publication Stuttgart Editor Dettling, M.; Opgen-Rhein, C.; Kläschen, M.  
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  ISSN ISBN 978-3794527557 Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5443  
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Author Krueger, K; Farmer, K. doi  openurl
  Title Laterality in the Horse [Lateralität beim Pferd ] Type Journal Article
  Year 2011 Publication mensch & pferd international Abbreviated Journal mup  
  Volume 4 Issue (up) Pages 160-167  
  Keywords Laterality, horse, information processing, training, welfare, human-animal interaction  
  Abstract Horses are one-sided, not only on a motor level, but they also prefer to use one eye, ear or nostril over the other under particular circumstances. Horses usually prefer using the left eye to observe novel objects and humans. This preference is more marked in emotional situations and when confronted with unknown persons. Thus the horse’s visual laterality provides a good option for assessing its mental state during training or in human-horse interactions. A strong preference for the left eye may signal that a horse cannot deal with certain training situations or is emotionally affected by a particular person.

Pferde benutzen für die Begutachtung von Objekten und Menschen bevorzugt eine bestimmte Nüster, ein Ohr oder ein Auge. So betrachten die meisten Pferde Objekte und Menschen mit dem linken Auge. Die Lateralitätsforschung erklärt diese sensorische Lateralität mit der Verarbeitung von Informationen unterschiedlicher Qualität in verschiedenen Gehirnhälften und zeigt auf, dass positive und negative emotionale Informationen sowie soziale Sachverhalte mit dem linken Auge aufgenommen und vorwiegend an die rechte Gehirnhälfte weitergegeben werden. In diesem Zusammenhang ermöglicht die visuelle Lateralität, den Gemütszustand des Pferdes im Training und im therapeutischen Fördereinsatz zu erkennen und zu berücksichtigen.
 
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5444  
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Author Schneider, G.; Krueger, K. pdf  openurl
  Title Third-party intervention Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 2. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 2. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg  
  Volume Issue (up) Pages 73  
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  Abstract Third-party intervention is the interruption of a dyadic interaction by a third animal. We observed such interventions in affiliative interactions in free-ranging Esperia-ponies (Equus caballus). It is known that horses intervene in affiliative contexts especially when a preferred partner is involved, probably to protect their social bond to this preferred partner. To prove this hypothesis the present study investigated whether the preferred partner was targeted, i.e. challenged, or supported by the intervener or both randomly. Therefore we examined the social relationship between the intervener and both dyadic interacting individuals. We found that interveners usually supported individuals to which they have stronger social bonds than to other group mates, while they have no particular relationship to the targeted animals. This indicates that interveners in stable horse groups protect their social bonds to the supported animals by challenging their interaction partners. Of all observed horses only some mares showed intervention behaviour. Their social position, reflected by their position in the dominance hierarchy, social networks, and the spatial group structure were investigated. We found that interveners occupy no unique position, but they are involved in a high amount of affiliative interactions, high-ranking, and relatively aggressive. KW -  
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  Publisher Xenophon Publishing Place of Publication Wald Editor  
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  ISSN 978-3-9808134-26 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5549  
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Author Pick, D.; Krueger, K. pdf  openurl
  Title Heuristics and complex decisions in man and horses Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 2. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 2. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg  
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  Abstract Darwin’s claim of differences in mental abilities between man and other animals is a matter of degree rather than of kind and appears to apply nicely to a comparison of choice behaviour in humans and equine. Humans and horses make two kinds of decisions, fast reflexive decisions based on heuristics, and slower more considered decisions that require more complex cognitive processing. Heuristic use is adaptive in that decisions based on them are most often useful in helping an organism to survive while requiring little time and cognitive effort. There is considerable evidence that there is an innate basis to many heuristics in humans as well as horses. A case will be made that the investigation of heuristics specific to horses will lead to an understanding of equine behaviour that has not been possible using traditional learning theories alone. Traditional learning theories are restricted in explaining behaviour to appeals to reinforcement regimes or to the formation of associations between novel stimuli and stimuli that cause innate reflexes, but they are of no use when behaviour is controlled by stimuli that have never been reinforced or been systematically paired with other stimuli that cause reflexive responses. For example, a horse in a two-choice discrimination task may choose a familiar stimulus which has never been reinforced over a new stimulus added to the discrimination task, simply due to the use of an heuristic that usually works -- when in doubt, choose a more familiar object over an unfamiliar one. Conflict resolution strategies provide another good example of heuristic vs. slow decision making. In both humans and horses, conflict resolution strategies are used within, but not typically between social groups. Such groups can be defined as community of interest. Depending on the resource that has to be defended, groups may well be small identities, such as human families or horse harems, or large aggregations such as herds in horses, or religious groups or nations in humans. Fast and simple resolution is possible with stable social identities in simple environments, but more complicated and time consuming deliberative processes are required to resolve conflict over long-term resource acquisition, for decisions in complex conflicts situations and complex social settings.  
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  Corporate Author Pick, D.; Krüger, K. Thesis  
  Publisher Xenophon Publishing Place of Publication Wald Editor Krueger, K.  
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  ISSN 978-3-9808134-26 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5558  
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Author Krueger, K. pdf  openurl
  Title Konfliktlösungsstrategien der Menschen und Pferde Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 2. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 2. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg  
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  Corporate Author Krüger, K. Thesis  
  Publisher Xenophon Publishing Place of Publication Wald Editor  
  Language Deutsch Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 978-3-9808134-26 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5566  
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Author Flauger, B.; Krueger, K. pdf  openurl
  Title Social feeding decisions in horses (Equus caballus) Type Conference Article
  Year 2012 Publication Proceedings of the 2. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 2. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg  
  Volume in press Issue (up) Pages  
  Keywords Feeding decision; Horse; Rank; Social behaviour  
  Abstract Like many other herbivores equids feed on rather evenly distributed resources. Especially in ruminants several studies have proved the influence of social organisations, rank, sex and the depletion of feeding sites on the feeding behaviour of individuals. However, it is not yet understood whether social aspects affect horses´ feeding decisions. Horses roam on vast habitats with constantly changing vegetation. In non-competitive situations domestic horses tend to return to the same feeding site until it is overgrazed. Whereas, for competition over limited food the social status of the individuals appears to be important. Curiosity about the influence of social rank and different social feeding conditions on the horses´ feeding decisions between two buckets, equally filled with high-quality surplus food, led us to create the test situation described here. The observer horses were alternately tested with a dominant and a subordinate demonstrator placed in one of three different positions. We conclude that domestic horses use cognitive strategic decision making in order to decide where to feed in a social feeding situation. When possible they tend to return to the same, continuously supplied feeding site and switch to an “avoidance tendency” when another horse is already feeding from it or in the presence of a dominant horse. Thus the position and the social rank of conspecifics affect the feeding strategy of horses.  
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  ISSN 978-3-9808134-26 ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5581  
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