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| Author | Parisi, D.R.; Soria, S.A.; Josens, R. | ||||
| Title | Faster-is-slower effect in escaping ants revisited: Ants do not behave like humans | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication  |
Safety Science | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 72 | Issue | Pages | 274-282 | |
| Keywords | Emergency; Evacuation; Egress; Ant egress; Crowd egress; Faster is slower; Pedestrian evacuation; Pedestrian dynamics | ||||
| Abstract | In this work we studied the trajectories, velocities and densities of ants when egressing under controlled levels of stress produced by a chemical repellent at different concentrations. We found that, unlike other animals escaping under life-and-death conditions and pedestrian simulations, ants do not produce a higher density zone near the exit door. Instead, ants are uniformly distributed over the available space allowing for efficient evacuations. Consequently, the faster-is-slower effect observed in ants (Soria et al., 2012) is clearly of a different nature to that predicted by de social force model. In the case of ants, the minimum evacuation time is correlated with the lower probability of taking backward steps. Thus, as biological model ants have important differences that make their use inadvisable for the design of human facilities. | ||||
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| ISSN | 0925-7535 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6161 | ||
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| Author | 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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| Series Volume | in prep | Series Issue | Edition | ||
| ISSN | ISBN | 978-3-95625-000-2 | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5848 | ||
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| Author | Kaplan, G. | ||||
| Title | Social animals and Communication, with special reference to 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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| Corporate Author | Kaplan, G. | 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 | 5796 | ||
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| Author | Palme, R. | ||||
| Title | Non-invasive monitoring of stress hormones for welfare assessment in domestic and wild equids | 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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| Abstract | Stress responses play an important role in allowing animals to cope with challenges. Glucocorticoids, key elements in the neuroendocrine stress axis, are traditionally measured as a parameter for welfare assessment. As blood sample collection itself disturbs an animal, non-invasive or minimal invasive methods have gained importance for assessing stress. In horses saliva and faeces are most frequently used. Faecal samples offer the advantage that they can be collected easily and stress-free. In faecal samples circulating hormone levels are integrated over a certain period of time. As a consequence faecal glucocorticoid metabolites represent the cumulative secretion and they are less affected by short episodic fluctuations of hormone secretion. However, in order to gain reliable information about an animal’s adrenocortical activity, certain criteria have to be met: Depending whether the impact of acute or chronic stressors is assessed, frequent sampling might be necessary whereas in other cases, single samples will suffice. Background knowledge regarding the metabolism and excretion of glucocorticoids is essential and a careful validation is obligatory. In addition, this presentation will address analytical issues regarding sample storage, extraction procedures, and immunoassays and various examples of a successful application in equids will be given. Applied properly, non-invasive techniques to monitor stress hormones are a useful tool for animal welfare assessment. |
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| Corporate Author | Palme, R. | 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 | 5795 | ||
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| Author | Rubenstein, D. | ||||
| Title | Social Networks: Linking Form with Function in Equid Societies | 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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| Abstract | Animal societies develop from interactions and relationships that occur among individuals within populations. The fundamental tenet of behavioral ecology is that ecological factors shape behavior and determine the distribution and associations of individuals on landscapes. As a result, different social systems emerge in different habitats and under different environmental conditions. Since characterizing social systems depends on time and motion studies of individual actions and interactions that are often bilateral, such characterizations are often coarse-grained. If social relationships can be characterized using social networks, however, seemingly similar social organizations often reveal informative differences in terms of deep structure. Thus social network theory should be able to provide insights in to the connections between social form and function. This talk will explore how the network structures of horses, zebras and asses can provide novel insights into the functioning of animal societies with respect to the spread of memes, genes and diseases. | ||||
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| Corporate Author | Rubenstein, D. | 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 | 5797 | ||
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| Author | Kaczensky, P. | ||||
| Title | Conservation of Asiatic wild asses | 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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| Corporate Author | Kaczensky, P. | Thesis | |||
| Publisher | Xenophon Publishing | Place of Publication | Wald | Editor | Krueger, K. |
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| ISSN | ISBN | 978-3-95625-000-2 | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5839 | ||
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| Author | McComb, K. | ||||
| Title | Social cognition and emotional awareness: studies on elephants and 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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| Corporate Author | McComb, K. | 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 | 5800 | ||
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| Author | Rogers, L. | ||||
| Title | Laterality in domestic and feral 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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| Corporate Author | Rogers, L. | 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 | 5801 | ||
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| Author | van Dierendonck, M. | ||||
| Title | “Out of the box” – innovations and new developments in social housing for 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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| Corporate Author | van Dierendonck, M. | Thesis | |||
| Publisher | xenophon Publishing | Place of Publication | Wald | Editor | Krueger, K. |
| Language | english | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
| 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 | 5817 | ||
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| Author | Krueger, K.; Hollenhorst, H.; Schuetz, A.; Weil, S. | ||||
| Title | Social learning and innovative learning in horses. | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2015 | Publication |
Proceedings of the 3. International Equine Science Meeting | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 3 | Issue | Pages | ||
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| Publisher | Xenophon Publishing | Place of Publication | Wald | Editor | K. Krueger |
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 5956 | ||
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