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Author Holekamp, K.E. url  doi
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  Title Questioning the social intelligence hypothesis Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Trends in Cognitive Sciences Abbreviated Journal Trends. Cognit. Sci.  
  Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 65-69  
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  Abstract The social intelligence hypothesis posits that complex cognition and enlarged [`]executive brains' evolved in response to challenges that are associated with social complexity. This hypothesis has been well supported, but some recent data are inconsistent with its predictions. It is becoming increasingly clear that multiple selective agents, and non-selective constraints, must have acted to shape cognitive abilities in humans and other animals. The task now is to develop a larger theoretical framework that takes into account both inter-specific differences and similarities in cognition. This new framework should facilitate consideration of how selection pressures that are associated with sociality interact with those that are imposed by non-social forms of environmental complexity, and how both types of functional demands interact with phylogenetic and developmental constraints.  
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Author Schiele, K. A. L. M. openurl 
  Title Einfluss reduzierter Futterzuteilung zweier verschiedener Heuqualitäten auf Passagedauer und Verdaulichkeit bei Ponies Type Manuscript
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  Abstract Über die Auswirkungen der Futtermenge und der Futterqualität auf die scheinbare

Verdaulichkeit und die mittlere Retentionszeit beim Pferd gibt es zahlreiche Arbeiten

mit zum Teil recht widersprüchlichen Ergebnissen. So existiert eine Hypothese,

wonach bei geringerer Energiedichte im Futter die TS-Aufnahme steigt und die

mittlere Retentionszeit abnimmt. Dadurch soll bei Equiden eine ausreichende

Energieaufnahme trotz geringer Energiedichte im Futter erreicht werden (JANIS

1976, DUNCAN et al.1990). In nahezu allen Studien zu diesem Thema wurden Futter

mit unterschiedlichem Nährstoffgehalt bei konstanter Futteraufnahme bzw. ad libitum

Fütterung untersucht. Nur bei PEARSON et al. (2001 und 2006) findet sich für jedes

Futter ein Vergleich von zwei verschiedenen Futtermengen, nämlich ad libitum und

70% der ad libitum Futteraufnahme. Systematische Untersuchungen bei Pferden zu

Futtermengen, die unterhalb des Erhaltungsbedarfes liegen, fehlen bisher.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen deshalb im Wesentlichen drei Fragen geklärt

werden:

· Gibt es einen Einfluss von Futtermengen unterhalb des Erhaltungsbedarfes auf

die mittlere Retentionszeit?

· Haben Veränderungen der mittleren Retentionszeit einen Einfluss auf die

scheinbare Verdaulichkeit?

· Wie unterscheiden sich diese Effekte in Abhängigkeit von der

Futterzusammensetzung?

Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie sollen vor allem bezüglich ihrer Auswirkungen auf die

praktische Pferdefütterung betrachtet werden.
 
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Author Daniel J. Povinelli; Timothy J. Eddy url  doi
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  Title Chimpanzees: Joint Visual Attention Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Psychological Science Abbreviated Journal Psychol Sci  
  Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 129 - 135  
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  Abstract Gaze following is a behavior that draws the human infant into perceptual contact with objects or events in the world to which others are attending One interpretation of the development of this phenomenon is that it signals the emergence of joint or shared attention, which may be critical to the development of theory of mind An alternative interpretation is that gaze following is a noncognitive mechanism that exploits social stimuli in order to orient the infant (or adult) to important events in the world We report experimental results that chimpanzees display the effect in response to both movement of the head and eyes in concert and eve movement alone Additional tests indicate that chimpanzees appear able to (a) project an imaginary line of sight through invisible space and (b) understand How that line of sight can be impeded by solid, opaque objects This capacity may have arisen because of its reproductive payoffs in the context of social competition with conspecifics, predation avoidance, or both.  
  Address Laboratory of Comparative Behavioral Biology, New Iberia Research Center DOI – 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00345.x  
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Author Purvis, A. url  doi
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  Title The h index: playing the numbers game Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Trends in Ecology & Evolution Abbreviated Journal Trends. Ecol. Evol  
  Volume 21 Issue 8 Pages 422-422  
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  Abstract Article Outline

References

The ‘h index’ was developed recently as a measure of research performance [1]: a researcher's h is the number of his or her papers that have been cited at least h times. In their thoughtful critique of the index, Kelly and Jennions [2] point out many ways in which h is no better than ‘traditional’ bibliometrics, such as total citation counts. However, there is one way in which, for researchers, it could be very much better, especially if (as Hirsch suggests [1]) it is to inform hiring and promotion decisions. The skewed nature of the distribution of citations among publications means that most researchers have several papers that nearly but not quite count. Consequently, h can be distorted much more easily than can total citation count just by finding a subtle way to cite one's own papers that are ‘bubbling under’. Incidentally, bats show broadly the same life-history allometries as other mammalian clades [3].
 
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Author Brooks, S. M. openurl 
  Title Animal-assisted psychotherapy and equine-fasciliated psychotherapy. Type Book Chapter
  Year 2006 Publication Psychotherapy and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 196-217  
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  Publisher Guilford Press Place of Publication New York Editor Webb, N.B.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5071  
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Author Sumpter, D.J.T. url  doi
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  Title The principles of collective animal behaviour Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Abbreviated Journal Phil. Trans. Biol. Sci.  
  Volume 361 Issue 1465 Pages 5-22  
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  Abstract In recent years, the concept of self-organization has been used to understand collective behaviour of animals. The central tenet of self-organization is that simple repeated interactions between individuals can produce complex adaptive patterns at the level of the group. Inspiration comes from patterns seen in physical systems, such as spiralling chemical waves, which arise without complexity at the level of the individual units of which the system is composed. The suggestion is that biological structures such as termite mounds, ant trail networks and even human crowds can be explained in terms of repeated interactions between the animals and their environment, without invoking individual complexity. Here, I review cases in which the self-organization approach has been successful in explaining collective behaviour of animal groups and societies. Ant pheromone trail networks, aggregation of cockroaches, the applause of opera audiences and the migration of fish schools have all been accurately described in terms of individuals following simple sets of rules. Unlike the simple units composing physical systems, however, animals are themselves complex entities, and other examples of collective behaviour, such as honey bee foraging with its myriad of dance signals and behavioural cues, cannot be fully understood in terms of simple individuals alone. I argue that the key to understanding collective behaviour lies in identifying the principles of the behavioural algorithms followed by individual animals and of how information flows between the animals. These principles, such as positive feedback, response thresholds and individual integrity, are repeatedly observed in very different animal societies. The future of collective behaviour research lies in classifying these principles, establishing the properties they produce at a group level and asking why they have evolved in so many different and distinct natural systems. Ultimately, this research could inform not only our understanding of animal societies, but also the principles by which we organize our own society.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5145  
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Author Riesch, R.; Ford, J.K.B.; Thomsen, F. url  doi
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  Title Stability and group specificity of stereotyped whistles in resident killer whales, Orcinus orca, off British Columbia Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Animal Behaviour Abbreviated Journal Anim.Behav.  
  Volume 71 Issue 1 Pages 79-91  
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  Abstract Resident killer whales off British Columbia form four acoustically distinct clans, each with a unique dialect of discrete pulsed calls. Three clans belong to the northern and one to the southern community. Resident killer whales also produce tonal whistles, which play an important role in close-range communication within the northern community. However, there has been no comparative analysis of repertoires of whistles across clans. We investigated the structural characteristics, stability and group specificity of whistles in resident killer whales off British Columbia. Acoustic recordings and behavioural observations were made between 1978 and 2003. Whistles were classified spectrographically and additional observers were used to confirm our classification. Whistles were compared across clans using discriminant function analysis. We found 11 types of stereotyped whistles in the northern and four in the southern community with some of the whistle types being stable over at least 13 years. In northern residents, 10 of the 11 whistle types were structurally identical in two of the three acoustic clans, whereas the whistle types of southern residents differed clearly from those of the northern residents. Our study shows that killer whales that have no overlap in their call repertoire use essentially the same set of stereotyped whistles. Shared stereotyped whistles might provide a community-level means of recognition that facilitates association and affiliation of members of different clans, which otherwise use distinct signals. We further suggest that vocal learning between groups plays an important role in the transmission of whistle types.  
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Author Warneken, F.; Tomasello, M. url  doi
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  Title Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Science Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 311 Issue 5765 Pages 1301-1303  
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  Abstract Human beings routinely help others to achieve their goals, even when the helper receives no immediate benefit and the person helped is a stranger. Such altruistic behaviors (toward non-kin) are extremely rare evolutionarily, with some theorists even proposing that they are uniquely human. Here we show that human children as young as 18 months of age (prelinguistic or just-linguistic) quite readily help others to achieve their goals in a variety of different situations. This requires both an understanding of others' goals and an altruistic motivation to help. In addition, we demonstrate similar though less robust skills and motivations in three young chimpanzees.  
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Author van Breda, E. doi  openurl
  Title A non-natural head-neck position (rollkur) during training results in less acute stress in elite trained dressage horses Type Journal Article
  Year 2006 Publication Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Abbreviated Journal Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science  
  Volume 9 Issue 1 Pages 59-64  
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  Abstract This study measured parameters of stress in recreational, trained horses (REC; n = 7) and elite (International Grand Prix level) trained, dressage horses (DRES; n = 5). The training of the DRES horses uses an unnatural head?neck position (Rollkur), whereas in the REC horses such training techniques are not common. The study measured stress by using heart rate variability analysis for 30 min postfeeding in the morning and 30 min postexercise after a morning training session. The study found no significant difference at rest between the REC and DRES horses. During the posttraining measurements, however, the DRES horses showed, among others, a less sympathetic and increased parasympathetic dominance. These results suggest that DRES horses tend to have less acute stress than do REC horses postexercise. The findings of this study suggest maintaining the health and well-being of DRES horses despite nonnatural, biomechanical positions.  
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  Notes doi: 10.1207/s15327604jaws0901_5 Approved no  
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Author Simmonds, K. openurl 
  Title The longterm effect of ostheopathic manipulationon lateral bending in the lumbar region Type Manuscript
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5672  
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