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Annotated Bibliography: Attitudes Toward Animal Research (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Attitudes Toward Wildlife And The Environment (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Altruism, Empathy, And Prosocial Behavior (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Environmental Education (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Humane Education (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Interaction With Animals (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Annotated Bibliography: Moral & Character Education (1998-2013), Erich Yahner

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Canine Sense And Sensibility: Tipping Points And Response Latency Variability As An Optimism Index In A Canine Judgement Bias Assessment, Melissa J. Starling, Nicholas Branson, Denis Cody, Timothy R. Starling, Paul D. Mcgreevy

Cognitive Ethology Collection

Recent advances in animal welfare science used judgement bias, a type of cognitive bias, as a means to objectively measure an animal's affective state. It is postulated that animals showing heightened expectation of positive outcomes may be categorised optimistic, while those showing heightened expectations of negative outcomes may be considered pessimistic. This study pioneers the use of a portable, automated apparatus to train and test the judgement bias of dogs. Dogs were trained in a discrimination task in which they learned to touch a target after a tone associated with a lactose-free milk reward and abstain from touching the target …

Dog Movie Stars And Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study In Media Influence On Choice, Stefano Ghirlanda, Alberto Acerbi, Harold A. Herzog

Entertainment Collection

Fashions and fads are important phenomena that influence many individual choices. They are ubiquitous in human societies, and have recently been used as a source of data to test models of cultural dynamics. Although a few statistical regularities have been observed in fashion cycles, their empirical characterization is still incomplete. Here we consider the impact of mass media on popular culture, showing that the release of movies featuring dogs is often associated with an increase in the popularity of featured breeds, for up to 10 years after movie release. We also find that a movie’s impact on breed popularity correlates …

The Dog Movie Star Effect: Is It Real?, Harold Herzog

'Animals and Us' Blog Posts

You think that Disney movies affect dog popularity -- but is it really true?

Anthropomorphism, Anthropectomy, And The Null Hypothesis, Kristin Andrews, Brian Huss

Experimentation Collection

We examine the claim that the methodology of psychology leads to a bias in animal cognition research against attributing ‘‘anthropomorphic’’ properties to animals (Sober in Thinking with animals: new perspectives on anthropomorphism. Columbia University Press, New York, pp 85–99, 2005; de Waal in Philos Top 27:225–280, 1999). This charge is examined in light of a debate on the role of folk psychology between primatologists who emphasize similarities between humans and other apes, and those who emphasize differences. Weargue that while in practice there is sometimes bias, either in the formulation of the null hypothesis or in the preference of Type-II …

Laterality Influences Cognitive Performance In Rainbowfish Melanotaenia Duboulayi, Anne-Laurence Bibost, Culum Brown

Sentience Collection

Cerebral lateralization has been suggested to convey a selective advantage to individuals by enhancing their cognitive abilities. Few, however, have explicitly compared the cognitive ability of animals with strongly contrasting laterality. Here, we examined the influence of laterality on learning performance in the crimson spotted rainbowfish, Melanotaenia duboulayi, using a classical conditioning paradigm. We also compared the learning ability of wild caught and captive-reared fish to examine the influence of rearing environment on cognitive performance. Laterality was established by observing which eye fish preferred to use while viewing their mirror image. Subjects were then conditioned to associate the appearance of …

A Comparison Of Spatial Learning And Memory Capabilities In Intertidal Gobies, Gemma E. White, Culum Brown

Sentience Collection

For the majority of animals, the ability to orient in familiar locations is a fundamental part of life, and spatial memory allows individuals to remember key locations such as food patches, shelter, mating sites or areas regularly occupied by predators. This study determined if gobies collected from rocky platforms and sandy beaches differ in their ability to learn and memorise the locations of tide pools in a simulated rocky intertidal zone. Intertidal rock pool gobies show acute homing abilities and, therefore, should be expected to display superior learning and memory capabilities. In contrast, it is unlikely that natural selection would …

Socialising Piglets In Lactation Positively Affects Their Post-Weaning Behaviour, Talia Morgan, John Pluske, David Miller, Teresa Collins, Anne L. Barnes, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Patricia A. Fleming

Sentience Collection

Although commercial farrowing sheds keep individual litters separated, previous studies have suggested that housing systems that allow socialisation of piglets pre-weaning can reduce aggression after weaning. This study tested whether pigs socialised with non-littermates pre-weaning would show less aggression during mixing at weaning (when piglets are taken from their sows and mixed in group housing), and whether socialisation influenced the time budgets or behavioural expression of piglets at weaning. In total, 353 piglets were followed from birth through to one week after weaning. Piglets from 24 sows were allowed to socialise in groups of four litters (‘socialised’ treatment group) from …

Behaviour Of Horses In A Judgment Bias Test Associated With Positive Or Negative Reinforcement, Sabrina Briefer Freymond, Elodie F. Briefer, Anja Zollinger, Yveline Gindrat-Von Allmen, Christa Wyss, Iris Bachmann

Ethology Collection

Moods can influence our judgment of ambiguous stimuli as positive or negative. Measuring judgment bias in animals is a promising method to objectively assess their emotional states. Our study aimed to develop a cognitive bias test in horses, in order to assess the effect of training using positive reinforcement (PR) or negative reinforcement (NR) on their emotional states. We trained 12 mares to discriminate between a rewarded and a non-rewarded location situated on each side of a paddock. The mares were then trained during five days to perform several exercises using PR (n = 6) for one group, and NR …

Emotional Engagements Predict And Enhance Social Cognition In Young Chimpanzees, Kim A. Bard, Roger Bakeman, Sarah T. Boysen, David A. Leavens

Sentience Collection

Social cognition in infancy is evident in coordinated triadic engagements, that is, infants attending jointly with social partners and objects. Current evolutionary theories of primate social cognition tend to highlight species differences in cognition based on human-unique cooperative motives. We consider a developmental model in which engagement experiences produce differential outcomes. We conducted a 10-year-long study in which two groups of laboratory-raised chimpanzee infants were given quantifiably different engagement experiences. Joint attention, cooperativeness, affect, and different levels of cognition were measured in 5- to 12-month-old chimpanzees, and compared to outcomes derived from a normative human database. We found that joint …

President's Note

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

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Community

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

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Front Lines

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

TARGETING CRUEL PROFITS; BASHING THE GAS; KEY PROVISION FOR HORSES

To The Rescue

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Pocket pups rescued in Tennessee; walking horses find their way again.

Q&A

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

SOME KIND OF WONDER-PIG

Porcine social media star does more than make people laugh.

At The Care Centers

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Photography workshop brings out horse admirers; wildfire victims recuperate.

Where Wombats Rule, Kama Einhorn

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Caring for pinkies and older joeys is a full-time job at Sleepy Burrows Wombat Sanctuary in Australia. Massages, daily walks and pouch time help these recuperating marsupials on their path back to freedom.

Wolves In The Wild, Emily Smith

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Victims of seesawing government policies, gray wolves are far from the fearsome creatures portrayed in fairy tales. Their family bonds, intelligence and intricate communication tell a more complex story.

In The Kitchen

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

KEEP TRUCKIN’

Quinoa avocado salad gets food truck fans’ hearts racing.

Humane Backyard

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

CATERPILLAR EFFECT

By catering to caterpillars, you can grow a butterfly garden.

We Are The Hsus

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

Tara Loller helps law enforcement carry out puppy mill regulations.

In The Limelight

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting; reviews.

Hometown Heroes

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

SENIOR MOMENTS

“It feels like you’re visiting someone’s grandma’s house”: Peaceful Passings offers refuge in rural Virginia.

Your Pet

Serial - All Animals 2009-15

EXIT STRATEGIES

Whether it’s a home fire or a hurricane, preparation can protect you and your pet in a crisis.