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Do horses expect humans to solve their problems?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Domestic animals are highly capable of detecting human cues, while wild relatives tend to perform less well (e.g. responding to pointing gestures). It is suggested that domestication may have led to the development of such cognitive skills.
Clémence eLesimple +3 more
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Veterinary Sciences, 2023 Tactile perception in humans varies between individuals and could depend on extrinsic factors such as working activity. In animals, there is no study relating the influence of animals’ work and their tactile reactivity per se.
Céline Rochais +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Comparative studies of naturally occurring canine cancers have provided new insight into many areas of cancer research. Development and validation of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis in pet dogs can help address diagnostic needs in veterinary as ...
Patricia Filippsen Favaro +9 more
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Scientific Reports, 2020 Group cohesion relies on the ability of its members to process social signals. Songbirds provide a unique model to investigate links between group functioning and brain processing of social acoustic signals.
Hugo Cousillas +4 more
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Experimental Tests for Measuring Individual Attentional Characteristics in Songbirds
Animals, 2021 Attention is defined as the ability to process selectively one aspect of the environment over others and is at the core of all cognitive processes such as learning, memorization, and categorization.
Loïc Pougnault +5 more
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How accurate are we at assessing others’ well-being? The example of welfare assessment in horses.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Healthcare practitioners such as physicians or nurses often underestimate patients’ well-being impairment (e.g. pain, anxiety) which may lead to undesirable consequences on treatment decisions.
Clémence eLesimple, Martine eHAUSBERGER
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Familiarity modulates both intra- and interspecific yawn contagion in red-capped mangabeys
Scientific Reports, 2022 Yawn contagion (YC) is, compared to spontaneous yawning, an evolutionary recent phenomenon probably linked to behavioral synchronization in highly social species that is more likely when it involves familiar subjects.
Luca Pedruzzi +6 more
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On-Farm Welfare Assessment of Horses: The Risks of Putting the Cart before the Horse
Animals, 2020 Although the question of animal welfare has been an important source of concern in the scientific community for several decades, many aspects are still under debate.
Martine Hausberger +6 more
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, 2023 Interrogarsi sul significato e sui contenuti dell’ethos sportivo comporta, inevitabilmente, un cammino a ritroso nel passato, in quella Grecia classica che ha forgiato la parola e l’ha riempita di contenuti. In questo saggio, quindi, cerco di porre in evidenza alcune caratteristiche peculiari dell’ethos olimpico – perché questo è il contesto nel ...
Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, Ahmad Kasravi
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Service Dogs and Persons with Disabilities: When COVID-19 Lockdown Changes Their Relationship
Animals, 2023 Persons with disabilities, who own service dogs, develop strong relationships with them. Since the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the possibility of social contact and modified human relationships, we hypothesized that the COVID-19 lockdown would influence ...
Marine Grandgeorge +3 more
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