Self-controlled visual discrimination learning of group-housed dwarf goats (Capra hircus): Behavioral strategies and effects of relocation on learning and memory

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-66

  Langbein, Jan ^a   Nürnberg, Gerd ^a   Puppe, Birger ^a   Manteuffel, Gerhard ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context; Dwarf goats; Learning strategies; Operant learning; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GOAT; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORM PERCEPTION; GOATS; MALE; MEMORY; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645420238     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.1.58     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Abeyesinghe, S. M., Nicol, C. J., Hartnell, S. J., & Wathes, C. M. (2005). Can domestic fowl, Callus gallus domesticus, show self-control? Animal Behaviour, 70, 1-11.
2. Allen, C. (1998). Assessing animal cognition: Ethological and philosophical perspectives. Journal of Animal Science, 76, 42-41.
3. Baldwin, B. A. (1979). Operant studies on shape discrimination in goats. Physiology & Behavior, 23, 455-459.
4. Baldwin, B. A. (1981). Shape discrimination in sheep and calves. Animal Behaviour, 29, 830-834.
5. Baumans, V. (2004). Methods for evaluation of laboratory animal well-being. ATLA: Alternatives to Laboratory Animals, 32(Suppl. 1A), 161-162.
6. Bekoff, M. (1994). Cognitive ethology and the treatment of non-human animals: How matters of mind inform of welfare. Animal Welfare, 3, 75-96.
7. Bittermann, M. E. (1965). Phylogenetic differences in learning. American Psychologist, 20, 396-410.
8. Boissy, A., & LeNeindre, P. (1990). Social influences on the reactivity of heifers: Implications for learning abilities in operant conditioning. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 25, 149-165.
9. Bouton, M. E., & Peck, C. A. (1989). Context effects on conditioning, extinction, and reinstatement in an appetitive conditioning preparation. Animal Learning & Behavior, 17, 188-198.
10. Broom, D. M. (1996). Animal welfare defined in terms of attempts to cope with the environment. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A - Animal Science, 27, 22-28.
11. Carlstead, K., & Shepherdson, D. (2000). Alleviating stress in zoo animals with environmental enrichment. In G. P. Moberg, & J. A. Mench (Eds.), The biology of animal stress (pp. 337-354). Wallingford, Oxon, England: CAB International.
12. Cheney, D. L., & Seyfarth, R. M. (1990). How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
13. Croney, C. C., Adams, K. M., Washington, C. G., & Stricklin, W. R. (2003). A note on visual, olfactory, and spatial cue use in foraging behavior of pigs: Indirectly assessing cognitive abilities. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 83, 303-308.
14. da Costa, A. P., Leigh, A. E., Man, M. S., & Kendrick, K. M. (2004). Face pictures reduce behavioural, autonomic, endocrine, and neural indices of stress and fear in sheep. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B Biological Sciences, 271, 2077-2084.
15. Dantzer, R. (2002). Can farm animal welfare be understood without taking into account the issues of emotion and cognition? Journal of Animal Science, 80(E. Suppl. 1), E1-E9. Retrieved March, 2005, from http:// www.asas.org/ symposia/vol80/80Esupp1TOC.htm
16. de Jong, I. C., Prelle, I. T., van de Burgwal, J. A., Lambooij, E., Korte, S. M., Blokhuis, H. J., et al. (2000). Effects of environmental enrichment on behavioral responses to novelty, learning, and memory, and the circadian rhythm in cortisol in growing pigs. Physiology & Behavior, 68, 571-578.
17. de Quervain, D. J. F., Roozendaal, B., Nitsch, R. M., McGaugh, J. L., & Hock, C. (2000). Acute cortisone administration impairs retrieval of long-term declarative memory in healthy human subjects. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 313-314.
18. Drea, C. M., & Wallen, K. (1995). Gradual acquisition of visual discrimination tasks in a social group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Learning & Behavior, 23, 1-8.
19. Ernst, K., Puppe, B., Schoen, P. C., & Manteuffel, G. (2005). A complex automatic feeding system for pigs aimed to induce successful behavioural coping by cognitive adaptation. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 91, 205-218.
20. Fiske, J. C., & Potter, G. D. (1979). Discrimination reversal learning in yearling horses. Journal of Animal Science, 49, 583-588.
21. Franz, H., & Roitberg, E. (2001). A comparison of learning performance of dwarf goats in visual discrimination tasks with two or four simultaneously offered stimuli. Archiv für Tierzucht, 44, 661-669.
22. Franz, H., Roitberg, F., Löhrke, B., Nürnberg, G., Dietl, G., & Kinzelbach, R. (2002). Visual discrimination learning of group-housed goats at an automated learning device. Archiv für Tierzucht, 45, 387-401.
23. Friedrich, A. M., & Zentall, T. R. (2004). Pigeons shift their preference toward locations of food that take more effort to obtain. Behavioural Processes, 67, 405-415.
24. Gordon, W. C., & Klein, R. L. (1994). Animal memory: The effects of context change on retention performance. In N. J. Mackintosh (Ed.), Animal learning and cognition: Handbook of perception and cognition (pp. 255-279). London: Academic Press.
25. Gould, J. L., & Marler, P. (1984). Ethology and the natural history of learning. In P. Marler & H. S. Terrace (Eds.), The biology of learning (pp. 47-74). New York: Springer-Verlag.
26. Griffin, D. R., & Speck, G. B. (2004). New evidence of animal consciousness. Animal Cognition, 7, 5-18.
27. Hagen, K., & Broom, D. M. (2003). Cattle discriminate between individual familiar herd members in a learning experiment. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 82, 13-28.
28. Hagen, K., & Broom, D. M. (2004). Emotional reactions to learning in cattle. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 85, 203-213.
29. Hanggi, E. B. (1999). Categorization learning in horses (Equus caballus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113, 243-252.
30. Hanggi, E. B. (2003). Discrimination learning based on relative size concepts in horses (Equus caballus). Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 83, 201-213.
31. Held, S., Mendl, M., Devereux, C., & Byrne, R. W. (2000). Social tactics of pigs in a competitive foraging task: The "informed forager" paradigm. Animal Behaviour, 59, 569-576.
32. Held, S., Mendl, M., Devereux, C., & Byrne, R. W. (2001). Behaviour of domestic pigs in a visual perspective taking task. Behaviour, 138, 1337-1354.
33. Held, S., Mendl, M., Laughlin, K., & Byrne, R. W. (2002). Cognition studies with pigs: Livestock cognition and its implication for production. Journal of Animal Science, 80(E. Suppl. 1), E10-E17. Retrieved March, 2005, from http://www.asas.org/symposia/vol80/80Esupp1TOC.htm
34. Hurlbert, S. H. (1984). Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological Monographs, 54, 187-211.
35. Iason, G. R., & Elston, D. A. (2002). Groups, individuals, efficiency and validity of statistical analyses [Letter to the editor]. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 75, 261-265.
36. Kendrick, K. M., da Costa, A. P., Leigh, A. E., Hinton, M. R., & Peirce, J. W. (2001, November 8). Sheep don't forget a face. Nature, 414, 165-166.
37. Kim, J. J., & Diamond, D. M. (2002). The stressed hippocampus, synaptic plasticity and lost memories. Nature Reviews, Neuroscience, 3, 453-462.
38. Langbein, J., Nürnberg, G., & Manteuffel, G. (2004). Visual discrimination learning in dwarf goats and related psychological stress indicated by changes of heart rate and heart rate variability. Physiology & Behavior, 82, 601-609.
39. Langbein, J., & Puppe, B. (2004). Analysing dominance relationships by sociometric methods - A plea for more standardised and precise approach in farm animals. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 87, 293-315.
40. Laughlin, K., Huck, M., & Mendl, M. (1999). Disturbance effects of environmental stimuli on pig spatial memory. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 64, 169-180.
41. Laule, G., & Desmond, T. (1998). Positive reinforcement training as an enrichment strategy. In D. Shepherdson, J. D. Mellen, & M. Hutchins (Eds.), Second nature: Environmental enrichment for captive animals (pp. 302-313). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
42. Lindberg, A. C., Kelland, A., & Nicol, C. J. (1999). Effects of observational learning on acquisition of an operant response in horses. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 61, 187-200.
43. McEwen, B. S., & Sapolsky, R. M. (1995). Stress and cognitive function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 5, 205-216.
44. Meier, M., Reinermann, R., Warlich, J., & Manteuffel, G. (1998). An automated training device for pattern discrimination learning of group-housed gerbils. Physiology & Behavior, 63, 497-498.
45. Mendl, M. (1999). Performing under pressure: Stress and cognitive function. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 65, 221-244.
46. Mendl, M., Laughlin, K., & Hitchcock, D. (1997). Pigs in space: Spatial memory and its susceptibility to interference. Animal Behaviour, 54, 1491-1508.
47. Nicol, C. J., & Pope, S. (1994). Social learning in sibling pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 40, 31-43.
48. Paul, E. S., Harding, E. J., & Mendl, M. (2005). Measuring emotional processes in animals: The utility of a cognitive approach. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 29, 469-491.
49. Roitberg, E., & Franz, H. (2004). Oddity learning by African dwarf goats (Capra hircus). Animal Cognition, 7, 61-67.
50. Rook, A. J., & Huckle, C. A. (1995). Synchronization of ingestive behaviour by grazing dairy cows. Animal Science, 60, 25-30.
51. Rybarczyk, P., Rushen, J., & de Passille, A. M. (2003). Recognition of people by dairy calves using colour of clothing. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 81, 307-319.
52. Sappington, B. K. F., & Goldman, L. (1994). Discrimination learning and concept formation in the Arabian horse. Journal of Animal Science, 72, 3080-3087.
53. SAS Institute. (2000). SAS online document (Version 8). Cary, NC: Author.
54. Sneddon, I. A., Beattie, V. E., Dunne, L., & Neil, W. (2000). The effect of environmental enrichment on learning in pigs. Animal Welfare, 9, 359-372.
55. Spruijt, B. M., Van den Bos, R., & Pijlman, F. T. A. (2001). A concept of welfare based on reward evaluating mechanisms in the brain: Anticipatory behaviour as an indicator for the state of reward systems. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 72, 145-171.
56. Thomas, D. R., McKelvie, A. R., & Mah, W. L. (1985). Context as a conditional cue in operant discrimination reversal learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 11, 317-330.
57. Weary, D. M., & Fraser, D. (1998). Replication and pseudoreplication: A comment on Phillips [Letter to the editor]. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 61, 181-183.