Lecture 15

Question 1

Who are the Fulani people?

Answer 1

They don’tuse fences for cattle, use own relationship/dominance to lead cattle (part of the herd, quite aggressive, show affiliative behaviour with them (grooming))

Question 2

How do shepherds communicate with sheep dogs?

Answer 2

• Make the dog move - rapid, short repeated calls increasing in frequency
• Make the dog stop - single prolonged noted of decreasing frequency

Question 3

What are the three mechanisms of learning?

Answer 3

Mechanism 1: habituation - animals are neophobic - happens when no negative consequences (dishabituation?)
Mechanism 2: response altered through classical conditioning or associative learning (reward or punishment)
Mechanism 3: Imprinting - occurs rapidly during the sensitive period of life (irreversible)

Question 4

What are the citrical periods for lambs, horses, cattle and poultry?

Answer 4

• lambs - first 2 days after birth more effective than next 10 days
• horses - 7 days
• cattle - 0-9 months
• poultry - early in life (unsure)

Question 5

What do people provide to relationships with animals?

Answer 5

• social rewards
• social support
• insert humans into the social system of animals
• some fundamental communication

Question 6

Who wrote the document with 5 major categories for characteristics that helped to define social groupings?

Answer 6

Hale

Question 7

is our relationship with animals just prey vs predator?

Answer 7

sheep had the same nerons firing for humans and dogs but different for seeing other sheep

Question 8

What is a huge part of being social?

Answer 8

Social communication

Question 9

Why do humans develop dominance over animals?

Answer 9

saftey of handling

Question 10

What are 3 examples of scienticif studies of animals demonstrating social behaviour with humans?

Answer 10

• Human reared dogs
• human reared lambs
• young calves

Question 11

Cues for recognition in cattle

Answer 11

• Vision
• dominance among cattle (controlled by smell)
• Control of food sources (vision and smell)
• maternal recognition (vision and smell)
• Human identification (vision)

Dairy could discriminate between 2 handlers in different clothes
beef couls discriminate between 2 handlers in same clothing

Question 12

Cues for recognition in sheep

Answer 12

• recognize each other
• visual
• prefer own breed
• recognize individual sheep
• mother- lamb use acroustic recognition

Question 13

Cues for recognition in pigs

Answer 13

• visual
• olfactory
• acroustic

Question 14

Cues for recognition in dogs and cats

Answer 14

Dogs
* olfactory

Cats
* vision
* olfactory

Question 15

What influence the response of farm animals to people

Answer 15

• genetics
• selecting for tameness
• learning - experience with handling