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	Author	Spier, S.J.
	Title	P. McGreevy, Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists, Edinburgh, Saunders (2004) ISBN 0702026344 369 pp. (soft) [pound sign]45			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	The Veterinary Journal	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	169	Issue	3	Pages	375-222
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	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	1982
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	Author	Balleine BW; Espinet A; Gonzalez F
	Title	Perceptual learning enhances retrospective revaluation of conditioned flavor preferences in rats			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Process.	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	31	Issue		Pages	341
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	3055
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	Author	Hogan, J.
	Title	Causation: the study of behavioural mechanisms			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Animal Biology (formerly Netherlands Journal of Zoology)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	55	Issue	4	Pages	323-341
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	Abstract	This paper describes current work on the causal analysis of behaviour systems. It is noted that while causal work investigating the neural, hormonal, and genetic bases of behaviour is flourishing, work being conducted at a strictly behavioural level of analysis has declined greatly over the past 40 years. Nonetheless, most recent research on animal cognition and applied ethology is still being carried out at a behavioural level of analysis and examples of both types of research are presented: memory mechanisms of food-storing birds and decisions of spider-eating jumping spiders, as well as feather pecking in fowl and animal welfare issues, are all briefly discussed. Finally, I discuss the similarities between neural network modelling and early ethological models of motivation, and then show how a modern version of Lorenz's model of motivation can account for current research findings on dustbathing in chickens and sleep in humans. I conclude that valuable information can still be obtained by research at a behavioural level of analysis.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	3134
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	Author	Best, T.; Kemps, E.; Bryan, J.
	Title	Effects of Saccharides on Brain Function and Cognitive Performance			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Nutrition Reviews	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	63	Issue		Pages	409-418
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	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	3447
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	Author	Bolhuis, J.
	Title	Function and mechanism in neuroecology: looking for clues			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Animal Biology (formerly Netherlands Journal of Zoology)	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	55	Issue	4	Pages	457-490
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	Abstract	The four questions that Niko Tinbergen identified for behavioural biology ? evolution, function, development and causation ? are all important and should be studied in their own right. Recently, there has been a debate as to whether these four questions should be investigated separately or whether they should be integrated. Integration of the four questions has been attempted in novel research disciplines such as cognitive ecology, evolutionary psychology and neuroecology. Euan Macphail and I have criticised these integrative approaches, suggesting that they are fundamentally flawed as they confound function and mechanism. Investigating the function or evolutionary history of a behaviour or cognitive system is important and entirely legitimate. However, such investigations cannot provide us with answers to questions about the mechanisms underlying behaviour or cognition. At most, functional or evolutionary considerations can provide clues that may be useful for a causal analysis of the underlying mechanisms. However, these clues can be misleading and are often wrong, as is illustrated with examples from song learning and food storing in birds. After summarising the main issues in the neuroecology debate, I discuss some misunderstandings that were apparent in the responses to our critique, as well as some recent relevant data. Recent results do not support the neuroecological approach. Finally, I suggest that the way forward is a cautious and critical use of functional and evolutionary clues in the study of the mechanisms of behaviour.
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	Call Number	Equine Behaviour @ team @			Serial	3396
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	Author	Bauer, G.B.
	Title	Research Training for Releasable Animals			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Conservation Biology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	19	Issue		Pages	1779-1789
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	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	3507
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	Author	Carruthers, P.
	Title	Why the question of animal consciousness might not matter very much			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Philosophical Psychology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	18	Issue		Pages	83-102
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	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	3510
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	Author	Savage; , A.O.; Kirsten Leong; Laura Graham; Anne
	Title	*Behavioral indices of estrus in a group of captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana)*			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Zoo Biology	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	24	Issue	4	Pages	311-329
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	Abstract	This study investigated behavioral signals of estrus by systematically monitoring the interactions of one male with four female African elephants housed in a naturalistic outdoor enclosure at Disney's Animal Kingdom over a period of 11 months. We measured changes in five spatial behaviors and 22 tactile-contact behaviors, as well as changes in serum progestagen and LH concentrations, across three ovarian cycles for each female. Two females did not cycle during the study. Three different phases of the ovarian cycle were identified: mid luteal, anovulatory follicular, ovulatory follicular. The male followed more and carried out more genital inspections, flehmen, and trunk-to-mouth behaviors toward cycling females during their ovulatory phase. Genital inspections by the male peaked above baseline levels on the day of an LH surge, and up to 9 days before, in both cycling females and, thus, might be a useful behavioral index of estrus. The male also carried out more genital inspections, flehmen, and trunk touches to the back leg toward ovulatory cycling than noncycling females. Overall, our results indicated that: 1) a single subadult African elephant male could discriminate two females in the ovulatory phase of their cycle (i.e., during the 3 weeks preceding ovulation) from the mid luteal phase; 2) the male also discriminated two cycling females in the ovulatory and anovulatory follicular phases from two noncycling females; 3) two females in the ovulatory phase of the cycle displayed a greater variety of tactile-contact behavior toward the male compared to the other cycle phases. Zoo Biol 0:1-19, 2005. – 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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	Call Number	refbase @ user @ Savage;2005			Serial	3552
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	Author	Stock, K.F.; Distl, O.
	Title	Prediction of breeding values for osseous fragments in fetlock and hock joints, deforming arthropathy in hock joints, and pathologic changes in the navicular bones of Hanoverian Warmblood horses			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Livestock Production Science	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	92	Issue	1	Pages	77-94
	Keywords	Hanoverian Warmblood horse; Radiological status; Breeding values; Response to selection
	Abstract	The results of a standardised radiological examination of 5928 Hanoverian Warmblood horses selected for sale at auction were used to predict relative breeding values (RBV) in the 23,662 horses included in the last four generations of the probands' pedigrees. The distribution of the RBV was investigated in the whole four-generation pedigree, in the probands and in those stallions that contributed at least three offspring to the probands. The RBV of the probands' sires were further compared with the officially published performance-based relative breeding values, i.e., total indices dressage (TID) and jumping (TIJ). The sires' level of dressage indices was considerably higher (mean TID=110) than of the jumping indices (mean TIJ=98). Total indices radiographic findings (TIR) were calculated for the sires with varying weighting given to the individual RBV. In each case, this resulted in a mean TIR of 99. Finally, total indices were derived from TIR and TID and/or TIJ in order to develop different selection schemes for all-purpose breeding and for breeding focused on dressage and show jumping. All breeding values under consideration increased by between 1% and 19% when radiographic findings were weighted with between 30% and 60% complementary to the corresponding performance parameters, and when only sires were selected with above average total indices. At the same time, the prevalences of the radiographic findings investigated here were lowered by up to 10% each. When only one radiographic finding was considered at a time, the maximum attainable response to selection was a 16-23% increase in the relative breeding values and a relative decrease in prevalences of radiographic findings of between 31% and 52%. The results of this study indicate that it is possible in horse breeding to consider simultaneously health and performance traits. Medical data should be included in the prediction of breeding values in order to improve the radiological status of today's riding horses.
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	Call Number	refbase @ user @			Serial	3953
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	Author	McGreevy, P.D.; McLean, A.N.; Warren-Smith, A.K.; Waran, N.; Goodwin, D.
	Title	Defining the terms and processes associated with equitation			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2005	Publication	Proceedings of the First International Equitation Science Symposium	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	10-43
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	Notes	Cited By (since 1996): 6; Export Date: 24 October 2008			Approved	no
	Call Number	Admin @ knut @			Serial	4616
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