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Author (up) Fuchs, K.; Götz, K.; Manschel, K.; Pohl, L.; Preisendanz, L.; Weil, S.; Weiß, V.; Wittum, J.; Krueger, K.
Title Vergleich der Interaktionen von Pferden in Boxenhaltung mit Weidegang und Pferden in Offenstallhaltung Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Göttinger Pferdetage’13 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 13 Pages 65
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-88542-782-7 Medium
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5948
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Author (up) Hinz, K.; Sennet, S.; Maros, K.; Krueger, K.
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 (up) Hollenhorst, H.; Weil, S.; Krueger, K.
Title Innovative behavour in horses (Equus caballus) Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Proceedings of the 3. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 3. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg
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Keywords innovative behavior, age, housing system, horse (Equus caballus)
Abstract Contrary to the widely-spread assumption that horses just have restricted cognitive capacities and are not very flexible in their behaviors, we showed that horses display innovative behavior and even make use of tools (Krueger 2015, Krueger et al. 2015). These findings derive from a database (http://innovative-behaviour.org/) the Equine behavior team managed in the past two years. Some horses did not only show single innovations, but several different innovations. The number of innovations per individual varied from 1 to 10. 20 % of all innovative horses in the database showed more than one innovation. These individuals can be called the ‘true innovators’. Moreover innovations were dependent on age. Young horses were more innovative than older ones, whereby horses at the age of five to nine years were the most innovative. When considering the housing system innovative horses in a single housing (inside box, outside box, paddock box) had a slight majority towards horses in group housing (open stable, active stable, pasture day and night). But given the fact that ratings on housing system frequencies state 95% of the horses to be kept in individual housing, innovations in individual housing are rare. Nevertheless, horses kept in inside boxes without a window, opened doors more often than all other horses. Aside from this effect, housing systems did not trigger the frequency of innovative behavior. Innovations for gaining freedom and innovations in general were widespread among horses with daily access to pasture and daily contact with conspecifics. Innovations for gaining food were not more likely to occur in horses that were fed little amounts of roughage. In conclusion, the housing of horses does not seem to be the primary catalyst for developing innovative behavior in horses. What makes a “true innovator” in horses, in addition to age, remains to be seen.
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Corporate Author Hollenhorst, H. Thesis
Publisher Xenophon Publishing Place of Publication Wald Editor ; Krueger, K.
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title Proc. 3. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-95625-000-2 Medium
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5896
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Author (up) Krueger, K.
Title Perissodactyla Cognition Type Book Chapter
Year 2017 Publication Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1-10
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Publisher Springer International Publishing Place of Publication Cham Editor Vonk, J.; Shackelford, T.
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-319-47829-6 Medium
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Krueger2017 Serial 6187
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Author (up) Krueger, K.
Title Social learning and innovative behaviour in horses Type Conference Article
Year 2015 Publication Proceedings of the 3. International Equine Science Meeting Abbreviated Journal Proc. 3. Int. Equine. Sci. Mtg
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Keywords social learning, innovative behaviour, Equus caballus, cognitive capacities
Abstract The evaluation of important parameters for measuring the horses’ cognitive capacities is one of the central topics of the equine behaviour team at Nürtingen-Geislingen University. Social complexity has been said to be one of the settings in which needs for cognitive capacities arise in animals. A variety of studies throughout the last two decades proved the horses’ social complexity to be far more elaborate than previously assumed. Horses form social bonds for the protection of offspring, intervene in encounters of others, identify group mates individually and easily orientate in a fission fusion society.

In such socially complex societies, animals will benefit from learning socially. In many bird and primate species the degree of social complexity correlates nicely with the species abilities for social learning. Social learning was, therefore, argued to be an indicator for elaborate mental capacities in animals. We were delighted to prove that horses actually copy social behaviour and techniques for operating a feeding apparatus from older and higher ranking group members. In a recent study we found young horses, at the age of 3 to 12, to copy the operation of a feeding apparatus from a human demonstrator. Social learning seems to work nicely in horses when the social background of the animals is considered.

The degree to which individual animals adapt to changes in their social or physical environment by finding innovative solution appears to be the other side of the coin, of whether animals adjust to challenges by social learning. It is not very astonishing, that along with the animals’ social complexity and their ability to learn socially also the degree to which they show innovative behaviour was claimed to be one of the most important demonstrations of advanced cognitive capacities. In a recent approach, we started to ask horse owners and horse keepers in many countries to tell us about unusual behaviour of their horses via a web site (http://innovative-behaviour.org). To date, we received 204 cases of innovative behaviour descriptions from which six cases were clear examples of tool use or borderline tool use. We categorized the innovative behaviours into the classes, a) innovations to gain food, b) innovations to gain freedom, c) social innovations, d) innovations to increase maintenance, and e) innovations that could not be clearly assigned to a category. About 20% of the innovative horses showed more than one innovation. These animals could be termed “true innovators”. Again, young horses were more innovative than older ones with the age group 5 – 9 showing the highest number of innovative behaviour descriptions.

In a nutshell, the horses’ cognitive capacities appear to be underestimated throughout the last decades. The horses’ social complexity is far more elaborate than previously assumed, horses learn socially from conspecific and humans, some of them demonstrate innovative behaviour adaptations to their environment and even simple forms of tool use.
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Corporate Author Krueger, K. Thesis
Publisher Xenophon Publishing Place of Publication Wald Editor
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ISSN ISBN 978-3-95625-000-2 Medium
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5848
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Author (up) Krueger, K.
Title “Pferdehaltung und Ethologie der Pferde” im Bachelorstudiengang Pferdewirtschaft Type Book Chapter
Year 2014 Publication Forschendes Lernen initiieren, umsetzen und reflektieren Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 54-81
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Publisher UniversitätsVerlag Webler Place of Publication Bielefeld Editor : S. Lepp und C. Niederdrenk-Felgner
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ISSN ISBN 10: 3-937026-91-6 Medium
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5944
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Author (up) Krueger, K.
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 (up) Krueger, K.
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
Volume in press Issue Pages
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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 (up) Krueger, K.
Title Das Pferd im Blickpunkt der Wissenschaft Type Book Whole
Year 2010 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher Xenophon Verlag Place of Publication Wald Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6009
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Author (up) Krueger, K.
Title “Erfasst” das Pferd die menschliche Psyche" Type Book Chapter
Year 2010 Publication Pferdegestützte Therapie bei psychischen Erkrankungen Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue 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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