Horse sense: Social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses' behavior

Animal Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-439

  Krueger, Konstanze ^a   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copying; Horse; Social cognition; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; IMITATION; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HORSES; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 46549088973     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-007-0133-0     Document Type: Article

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