Domestic horses (Equus caballus) prefer to approach humans displaying a submissive body posture rather than a dominant body posture
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Body posture discrimination by horses 1 Domestic horses ( Equus caballus ) prefer to approach humans displaying a submissive body posture rather than a dominant body posture Amy
Signals of dominance and submissiveness are central to conspecific communication in many species. For domestic animals, sensitivities to these signals in humans may also be beneficial. We presented domestic horses with a free choice between two unfamiliar humans, one adopting a submissive and the other a dominant body posture, with vocal and facial cues absent. Horses had previously been given ...
متن کاملCross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus) extends to familiar humans.
It has recently been shown that some non-human animals can cross-modally recognize members of their own taxon. What is unclear is just how plastic this recognition system can be. In this study, we investigate whether an animal, the domestic horse, is capable of spontaneous cross-modal recognition of individuals from a morphologically very different species. We also provide the first insights in...
متن کاملInvestigating attentional processes in depressive-like domestic horses (Equus caballus).
Some captive/domestic animals respond to confinement by becoming inactive and unresponsive to external stimuli. Human inactivity is one of the behavioural markers of clinical depression, a mental disorder diagnosed by the co-occurrence of symptoms including deficit in selective attention. Some riding horses display 'withdrawn' states of inactivity and low responsiveness to stimuli that resemble...
متن کاملCross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus).
Individual recognition is considered a complex process and, although it is believed to be widespread across animal taxa, the cognitive mechanisms underlying this ability are poorly understood. An essential feature of individual recognition in humans is that it is cross-modal, allowing the matching of current sensory cues to identity with stored information about that specific individual from ot...
متن کاملBody posture effects on self-evaluation: A self-validation approach
Building on the notion of embodied attitudes, we examined how body postures can influence self-evaluations by affecting thought confidence, a meta-cognitive process. Specifically, participants were asked to think about and write down their best or worse qualities while they were sitting down with their back erect and pushing their chest out (confident posture) or slouched forward with their bac...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Animal Cognition
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1435-9448,1435-9456
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-017-1140-4