Equine utilization of a previously learned visual stimulus to solve a novel task

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 163-172

  McCall, C A ^a   Salters, M A ^a   Johnson, K B ^a   Silverman, S J ^a   McElhenney, W H ^a   Lishak, R S ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Horse; Learned stimulus; Novel task

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; LEARNING;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0038548453     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(03)00078-9     Document Type: Article

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