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Gould, J.L. | ||||
| Title | Thinking about thinking: how Donald R. Griffin (1915-2003) remade animal behavior | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Animal Cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
| Volume | 7 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 1-4 |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 3092 | ||
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Gould, J.L. | ||||
| Title | Animal cognition | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Current Biology : CB | Abbreviated Journal | Curr Biol |
| Volume | 14 | Issue | 10 | Pages | R372-5 |
| Keywords | Animals; Awareness; Behavior, Animal/*physiology; Cognition/*physiology; Concept Formation; Decision Making; Instinct; Intelligence/*physiology; Learning/*physiology; Species Specificity | ||||
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| Address | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. gould@princeton.edu | ||||
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| Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| ISSN | 0960-9822 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:15186759 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4169 | ||
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Goto, K.; Wills, A.J.; Lea, S.E.G. | ||||
| Title | Global-feature classification can be acquired more rapidly than local-feature classification in both humans and pigeons | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Animal Cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
| Volume | 7 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 109-113 |
| Keywords | Adult; Animals; Behavior, Animal/physiology; *Classification; Columbidae/*physiology; *Discrimination Learning; Form Perception; Humans; *Mental Processes; *Pattern Recognition, Visual; Species Specificity | ||||
| Abstract | When humans process visual stimuli, global information often takes precedence over local information. In contrast, some recent studies have pointed to a local precedence effect in both pigeons and nonhuman primates. In the experiment reported here, we compared the speed of acquisition of two different categorizations of the same four geometric figures. One categorization was on the basis of a local feature, the other on the basis of a readily apparent global feature. For both humans and pigeons, the global-feature categorization was acquired more rapidly. This result reinforces the conclusion that local information does not always take precedence over global information in nonhuman animals. | ||||
| Address | School of Psychology, Washington Singer Laboratories, University of Exeter, EX4 4QG, Exeter, UK. K.Goto@exeter.ac.uk | ||||
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| ISSN | 1435-9448 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:15069610 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2530 | ||
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Gothard, K.M.; Erickson, C.A.; Amaral, D.G. | ||||
| Title | How do rhesus monkeys ( Macaca mulatta) scan faces in a visual paired comparison task? | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Animal Cognition | Abbreviated Journal | Anim. Cogn. |
| Volume | 7 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 25-36 |
| Keywords | Animals; Eye Movements/*physiology; *Facial Expression; Macaca mulatta/*physiology; Male; Pattern Recognition, Visual/*physiology; *Task Performance and Analysis | ||||
| Abstract | When novel and familiar faces are viewed simultaneously, humans and monkeys show a preference for looking at the novel face. The facial features attended to in familiar and novel faces, were determined by analyzing the visual exploration patterns, or scanpaths, of four monkeys performing a visual paired comparison task. In this task, the viewer was first familiarized with an image and then it was presented simultaneously with a novel and the familiar image. A looking preference for the novel image indicated that the viewer recognized the familiar image and hence differentiates between the familiar and the novel images. Scanpaths and relative looking preference were compared for four types of images: (1) familiar and novel objects, (2) familiar and novel monkey faces with neutral expressions, (3) familiar and novel inverted monkey faces, and (4) faces from the same monkey with different facial expressions. Looking time was significantly longer for the novel face, whether it was neutral, expressing an emotion, or inverted. Monkeys did not show a preference, or an aversion, for looking at aggressive or affiliative facial expressions. The analysis of scanpaths indicated that the eyes were the most explored facial feature in all faces. When faces expressed emotions such as a fear grimace, then monkeys scanned features of the face, which contributed to the uniqueness of the expression. Inverted facial images were scanned similarly to upright images. Precise measurement of eye movements during the visual paired comparison task, allowed a novel and more quantitative assessment of the perceptual processes involved the spontaneous visual exploration of faces and facial expressions. These studies indicate that non-human primates carry out the visual analysis of complex images such as faces in a characteristic and quantifiable manner. | ||||
| Address | Department of Psychiatry, University of California Davis, 2230 Stokton Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. kgothard@email.arizona.edu | ||||
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| ISSN | 1435-9448 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:14745584 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2545 | ||
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Gilbert-Norton, L.; Jule, K. Richards, G; Goto, K. | ||||
| Title | Social structure of pony (Equus caballus) mares in an all female herd on Lundy: analysis of dominance relationship and preferred associate. | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Lundy Field Society Annual Report | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 54 | Issue | 54 | Pages | 71--88 |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5744 | ||
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Giangaspero, A.; Traversa, D.; Otranto, D. | ||||
| Title | [Ecology of Thelazia spp. in cattle and their vectors in Italy] | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Parassitologia | Abbreviated Journal | Parassitologia |
| Volume | 46 | Issue | 1-2 | Pages | 257-259 |
| Keywords | Animals; Cattle/parasitology; Cattle Diseases/epidemiology/*parasitology/transmission; Disease Transmission, Horizontal; Dog Diseases/epidemiology/parasitology/transmission; Dogs/parasitology; Ecosystem; Eye Infections, Parasitic/epidemiology/transmission/*veterinary; Horse Diseases/epidemiology/parasitology/transmission; Horses/parasitology; Humans; Insect Vectors/*parasitology; Italy/epidemiology; Muscidae/*parasitology; Species Specificity; Spirurida Infections/epidemiology/transmission/*veterinary; Thelazioidea/classification/*isolation & purification | ||||
| Abstract | The genus Thelazia (Spirurida, Thelaziidae) includes a cosmopolitan group of eyeworm spirurids responsible for ocular infections in domestic and wild animals and transmitted by different species of muscids. Bovine thelaziosis is caused by Thelazia rhodesi Desmarest 1828, Thelazia gulosa Railliet & Henry 1910, and Thelazia skrjabini Erschow 1928, which occur in many countries; T. gulosa and T. skrjabini have been reported mainly in the New World, while T. rhodesi is particularly common in the Old World. In Italy, T. rhodesi was reported in southern regions a long time ago and, recently, T. gulosa and T. skrjabini have been identified in autochthonous cattle first in Apulia and then in Sardinia. Thirteen species of Musca are listed as intermediate hosts of eyeworms, but only Musca autumnalis and Musca larvipara have been demonstrated to act as vectors of Thelazia in the ex-URSS, North America, ex-Czechoslovakia and more recently in Sweden. In Italy, after the reports of T. gulosa and T. skrjabini in southern regions, the intermediate hosts of bovine eyeworms were initially only suspected as the predominant secretophagous Muscidae collected from the periocular region of cattle with thelaziosis were the face flies, M. autumnalis and M. larvipara, followed by Musca osiris, Musca tempestiva and Musca domestica. The well-known constraints in the identification of immature eyeworms to species by fly dissection and also the time-consuming techniques used constitute important obstacles to epidemiological field studies (i.e. vector identification and/or role, prevalence and pattern of infection in flies, etc.). Molecular studies have recently permitted to further investigations into this area. A PCR-RFLP analysis of the ribosomal ITS-1 sequence was developed to differentiate the 3 species of Thelazia (i.e. T. gulosa, T. rhodesi and T. skrjabini) found in Italy, then a molecular epidemiological survey has recently been carried out in field conditions throughout five seasons of fly activity and has identified the role of M. autumnalis, M. larvipara, M. osiris and M. domestica as vectors of T. gulosa and of M. autumnalis and M. larvipara of T. rhodesi. Moreover, M. osiris was described, for the first time, to act as a vector of T. gulosa and M. larvipara of T. gulosa and T. rhodesi. The mean prevalence in the fly population examined was found to be 2.86%. The molecular techniques have opened new perspectives for further research on the ecology and epidemiology not only of Thelazia in cattle but also of other autochthonous species of Thelazia which have been also recorded in Italy, such as Thelazia callipaeda, which is responsible for human and canid ocular infection and Thelazia lacrymalis, the horse eyeworm whose epidemiological molecular studies are in progress. | ||||
| Address | Dipartimento PR.I.M.E., Universita degli Studi di Foggia | ||||
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| Language | Italian | Summary Language | Original Title | Ecologia di Thelazia spp. e dei vettori in Italia | |
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| ISSN | 0048-2951 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:15305729 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2633 | ||
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Ghirlanda, S.; Vallortigara, G. | ||||
| Title | The evolution of brain lateralization: a game-theoretical analysis of population structure | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 271 | Issue | 1541 | Pages | 853-857 |
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| Abstract | In recent years, it has become apparent that behavioural and brain lateralization at the population level is the rule rather than the exception among vertebrates. The study of these phenomena has so far been the province of neurology and neuropsychology. Here, we show how such research can be integrated with evolutionary biology to understand lateralization more fully. In particular, we address the fact that, within a species, left– and right–type individuals often occur in proportions different from one–half (e.g. hand use in humans). The traditional explanations offered for lateralization of brain function (that it may avoid unnecessary duplication of neural circuitry and reduce interference between functions) cannot account for this fact, because increased individual efficiency is unrelated to the alignment of lateralization at the population level. A further puzzle is that such an alignment may even be disadvantageous, as it makes individual behaviour more predictable to other organisms. Here, we show that alignment of the direction of behavioural asymmetries in a population can arise as an evolutionarily stable strategy when individual asymmetrical organisms must coordinate their behaviour with that of other asymmetrical organisms. Brain and behavioural lateralization, as we know it in humans and other vertebrates, may have evolved under basically ‘social’ selection pressures. | ||||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5345 | ||
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Gentner, T.Q. | ||||
| Title | Neural Systems for Individual Song Recognition in Adult Birds | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 1016 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 282-302 |
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| Abstract | The songbird auditory system is an excellent model for neuroethological studies of the mechanisms that govern the perception and cognition of natural stimuli (i.e., song), and the translation of corresponding representations into natural behaviors. One common songbird behavior is the learned recognition of individual conspecific songs. This chapter summarizes the research effort to identify the brain regions and mechanisms mediating individual song recognition in European starlings, a species of songbird. The results of laboratory behavioral studies are reviewed, which show that when adult starlings learn to recognize other individual's songs, they do so by memorizing large sets of song elements, called motifs. Recent data from single neurons in the caudal medial portion of the mesopallium are then reviewed, showing that song recognition learning leads to explicit representation of acoustic features that correspond closely to specific motifs, but only to motifs in the songs that birds have learned to recognize. This suggests that the strength and tuning of high-level auditory object representations, of the sort that presumably underlie many forms of vocal communication, are shaped by each animal's unique experience. | ||||
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| Notes | 10.1196/annals.1298.008 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2961 | ||
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Geisbauer, G.; Griebel, U.; Schmid, A.; Timney, B | ||||
| Title | Brightness discrimination and neutral point | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Canadian Journal of Zoology | Abbreviated Journal | Can. J. Zool |
| Volume | 82 | Issue | 4 | Pages | 660-670 |
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| Abstract | Abstract: Equine brightness discrimination ability and color discrimination were measured using a two-choice discrimination task. Two Haflinger horses (Equus caballus L., 1758) were trained to discriminate 30 different shades of grey varying from low to high relative brightness. Their ability to distinguish shades of grey was poor, with calculated Weber fractions of 0.42 and 0.45. In addition, a “neutral point” test to determine the dimensionality of color vision was carried out. Three hues of blue-green were tested versus a range of grey targets with brightnesses similar to those of the blue-green targets. A neutral point was found at about 480 nm. Thus, we can conclude that horses possess dichromatic color vision. |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 3649 | ||
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Gauvin, S.; Giraldeau, L.-A. | ||||
| Title | Nutmeg mannikins ( Lonchura punctulata) reduce their feeding rates in response to simulated competition | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication | Oecologia | Abbreviated Journal | Oecologia |
| Volume | 139 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 150-156 |
| Keywords | Animals; *Feeding Behavior; Population Density; *Social Behavior; *Songbirds | ||||
| Abstract | Group feeding animals experience a number of competitive foraging costs that may result in a lowered feeding rate. It is important to distinguish between reductions in feeding rates that are caused by reduced food availability and physical interactions among foragers from those caused by the mere presence of foraging companions that may be self-imposed in order to obtain some benefit of group membership. Starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris) reduce their feeding rates when in the company of simulated competitors located in an adjacent cage that cannot affect the food availability or interact with the forager. In the present study, we investigate whether the presence of simulated competitors in another species of passerine, nutmeg mannikins ( Lonchura punctulata), can result in self-imposed reductions in feeding rates. When feeding in the company of simulated competitors, mannikins spent more non-foraging time near them, fed more slowly, reduced travel times between patches, reduced their scanning time and pecked more slowly. These results provide evidence that simulated competitors induce a reduction in pecking rate: behavioural interference. These self-imposed responses to competitors may have resulted from attempts to remain close to the non-feeding companions. Such self-imposed reductions in feeding rates may be a widespread yet generally unrecognised foraging cost to group feeding individuals. | ||||
| Address | Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||
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| Notes | PMID:14722748 | Approved | no | ||
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