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Veissier, I. | ||||
| Title | Observational learning in cattle | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Applied Animal Behaviour Science | Abbreviated Journal | Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. |
| Volume | 35 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 235-243 |
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| Abstract | Four experiments were designed to find evidence of observational learning in cattle. The experiments were run on ten experimental heifers, each observing a demonstrator mate performing a task, and on ten control heifers, each observing a non-demonstrator mate. The mates and observers were separated by wire netting in Experiments 1-3, but were in the same room in Experiment 4. The task to be learned was to push a panel to get food into a box. All naive animals were able to observe while their mate performed the task. The observers in Experiments 1 and 4 were Salers heifers that had no prior experience of the testing room; those in Experiment 2 were Salers heifers that were accustomed to the room; those in Experiment 3 were Aubrac or Limousin heifers that had already eaten in the room. The behaviour of the observers was influenced by their mates: activity at or near the boxes was enhanced by the presence of demonstrators in Experiment 2 (box contacts: 38.0 +/- 16.2 vs. 22.1 +/- 11.9 for experimental and control heifers, respectively; P<0.05), while activity in other parts of the room in Experiment 3 was enhanced when non-demonstrator mates were present (wall sniffing: 5.4 +/- 13.9 vs. 13.9 +/- 13.7; P<0.05). Overall, 26 experimental heifers vs. 19 controls learned the task (P>0.05). The time spent eating was longer when the observer only had visual contact with a demonstrator (Experiment 1: 15.9 +/- 1.6 vs. 11.6 +/- 1.8 min), but was lower when physical contacts with the demonstrator were possible (Experiment 4: 4.6 +/- 8.8 vs. 5.4 +/- 2.2 min; P<0.05). Ten out of the 11 Limousin heifers learned the task, compared with only three out of the nine Aubrac heifers (P<0.05). The latter spent more time near the door and sniffed the walls more often than the former (2.0 +/- 1.9 vs. 0.4 +/- 0.6 min, P<0.05, and 18.1 +/- 13.4 vs. 2.7 +/- 6.5 min, P<0.01), as though they were trying to flee the situation. When animals observed a demonstrator, their attention was drawn to stimuli involved in the task but acquisition of knowledge was not greatly improved. |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour Team @ birgit.flauger @ | Serial | 4325 | ||
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Tomasello M; Savage-Rumbaugh S; Kruger AC | ||||
| Title | Imitative learning of actions on objects by children, chimpanzees, and enculturated chimpanzees | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Child Dev. | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 64 | Issue | Pages | 1688 | |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 3044 | ||
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Todd, I.A.; Kacelnik, A. | ||||
| Title | Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem: dynamics of scalar memory for travel time | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Animal Behaviour. | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Behav. |
| Volume | 46 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 765-775 |
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| Abstract | Abstract. The relation between memory for travel time and foraging decisions was studied experimentally. The temporal properties of two environments with patchily distributed food were simulated in the laboratory using pigeons, Columba livia, as subjects. The two environments differed in mean travel time, while the coefficient of variation of travel time and the decelerated function relating cumulative food gain to time in the patch were held constant within and between environments. Each environment contained a uniform mixture of five travel times experienced in a random order. Two of the five travel times were common in both environments. Effects of travel time were studied by comparing prey collected per patch visit (PPV) after various travel times within each environment, and by comparing patch exploitation after equal travel times between environments. Within the environment with long mean travel time (LMT) PPV was positively correlated with the last and the penultimate travel times but not with travel times before that. The increase in PPV per second of last travel time was six times greater than the increase per second of penultimate travel time, implying very steep memory discounting. In the environment with short mean travel time (SMT), there was no correlation between PPV and previous travel times. However, comparisons between environments of visits following travel times common to both environments (thus removing the effect of the last travel time) showed that substantially more prey were taken after equal travel times in the LMT than in the SMT environment. This difference cannot be accounted for by the within-environment effect of penultimate travel time, implying that there is a different, less steeply devalued, effect of the mixture of travel times. A model of information processing based on combining Scalar Expectancy Theory with the predictions of rate maximization under the Marginal Value Theorem is presented. The model can approximate the results obtained in this and previous experiments and provides a framework for further analysis of memory mechanisms of foraging behaviour. | ||||
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| Call Number | Serial | 2111 | |||
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Timberlake, W. | ||||
| Title | Animal Behavior: A Continuing Synthesis | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Annual Review of Psychology | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 44 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 675-706 |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 3537 | ||
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SYLVAIN GAGNON,FRANCOISY. DORE | ||||
| Title | Search behavior of dogs (Canis familiaris) in invisible displacement problems | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Animal Learning & Behavior | Abbreviated Journal | Anim Learn. & Behav. |
| Volume | 21 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 246-254 |
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| Abstract | Gagnon and Dor (1992) showed that domestic dogs are able to solve a Piagetian object permanence task called the invisible displacement problem. A toy is hidden in a container which is moved behind a screen where the toy is removed and left. Dogs make more errors in these problems than they do in visible displacement tests, in which the object is hidden directly behind the target screen. In Experiment 1, we examinedcomponents ofthe standard procedure of invisible displacements that may make encoding or retention of the hiding location more difficult than it is in visible displacements. In Experiment 2, we compared dogs performances in visible and invisible displacement problems when delays of 0, 10, and 20 sec were introduced between the objects final disappearance and the subjects release. The results revealed that dogs poorer performance in invisible displacement tests is related to the complex sequence of events that have to be encoded or remembered as well as to a difficulty in representing the position change that is signaled, but not directly perceived. |
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| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 538 | ||
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Stadler, P.; Rewel, A.; Deegen, E. | ||||
| Title | [M-mode echocardiography in dressage horses, class S jumping horses and untrained horses] | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Zentralblatt fur Veterinarmedizin. Reihe A | Abbreviated Journal | Zentralbl Veterinarmed A |
| Volume | 40 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 292-306 |
| Keywords | Animals; Echocardiography/*veterinary; Female; Heart Septum/ultrasonography; Heart Ventricles/ultrasonography; Horses/*anatomy & histology; Male; *Physical Conditioning, Animal; Reference Values | ||||
| Abstract | Heart structures of 45 warmblooded horses were measured by M-mode-echocardiography. The current training level of 15 dressage horses (group I) and 15 show-jumping horses (group II) was category “S”. In the third group were 15 untrained horses. Four standardized transducer positions were determined for the m-mode echobeam, calibrated according to the two-dimensional real time technique. End systolic and end diastolic diameters of left ventricle, right ventricle, aortic root, interventricular septum and left ventricular wall, as well as motion pattern of heart wall, mitral valve and aortic valve of all horses were measured. The dressage horses showed a significant thickening of interventricular septum and left-ventricular wall compared with the show-jumping horses and the untrained horses. The end diastolic left ventricle diameter of the show-jumping horses was significantly larger than in the other groups. Compared to the untrained horses the show-jumping horses showed a significantly larger end systolic left ventricular wall diameter measured at the level of papillary muscle. It can be concluded, that an increase in heart mass in category “S” sport horses is attributed to their level of training. | ||||
| Address | Klinik fur Pferde der Tierarztlichen Hochschule Hannover | ||||
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| Language | German | Summary Language | Original Title | Die M-mode-Echokardiographie bei S-Dressur-, S-Springpferden und bei untrainierten Pferden | |
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| ISSN | 0514-7158 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:8342361 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 3749 | ||
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Shettleworth, S.J. | ||||
| Title | Varieties of learning and memory in animals | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes | Abbreviated Journal | J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process |
| Volume | 19 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 5-14 |
| Keywords | Animals; Association Learning; Birds; Conditioning, Classical; Evolution; Imprinting (Psychology); *Learning; *Memory; Social Environment; Species Specificity; Taste | ||||
| Abstract | It is often assumed that there is more than one kind of learning--or more than one memory system--each of which is specialized for a different function. Yet, the criteria by which the varieties of learning and memory should be distinguished are seldom clear. Learning and memory phenomena can differ from one another across species or situations (and thus be specialized) in a number of different ways. What is needed is a consistent theoretical approach to the whole range of learning phenomena, and one is explored here. Parallels and contrasts in the study of sensory systems illustrate one way to integrate the study of general mechanisms with an appreciation of species-specific adaptations. | ||||
| Address | Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
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| Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| ISSN | 0097-7403 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:8418217 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 380 | ||
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Shah Nv, | ||||
| Title | Ecology of wild ass in Little Rann of Kutch | Type | Manuscript | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Baroda University, India. | Editor | ||
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| Notes | from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List | Approved | yes | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 1587 | |||
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Schuhmann K, | ||||
| Title | Untersuchung zur Sozialstruktur des persischen Wildesels | Type | Manuscript | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | ||
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| Publisher | Place of Publication | Freiburg | Editor | ||
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| Notes | from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List | Approved | yes | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 1578 | |||
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RÖHRS, M.; EBINGER, P. | ||||
| Title | Progressive und regressive Hirngrößenveränderungen bei Equiden | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1993 | Publication | Abbreviated Journal | Z zool Syst Evolut forsch | |
| Volume | 31 | Issue | Pages | 233-239 | |
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| Notes | from Professor Hans Klingels Equine Reference List | Approved | yes | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 1513 | |||
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