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Behavioral and physiological reactions in dogs to a veterinary examination: Owner-dog interactions improve canine well-being

Authors: Erika Csoltova, Michaël Martineau, Alain Boissy, Caroline Gilbert

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: behavior, dogs, human-dog interactions, physiology, veterinary exam, well-being

2017

Development of personality tests to use in the field, stable over time and across situations, and linked to horses’ show jumping performance

Authors: Léa Lansade, Pascaline Philippon, Lucile Hervé, Marianne Vidament

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: activity, fearfulness, reactivity, rideability, tactile sensitivity, temperament

2016

Horses’ learning performances are under the influence of several temperamental dimensions

Authors: Léa Lansade, Faustine Simon

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: avoidance task, equus-caballus, fearfulness, learning, personality, temperament

2010

Effects of neonatal handling on playfulness by means of reversal of the desire to play in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Authors: Raúl Aguilar, José M. Caramés, Alfredo Espinet

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: early handling, play, rats

2009

Nursing stimulation is more than tactile sensation: It is a multisensory experience

Authors: Marcelo Febo, Tara L. Stolberg, Michael Numan, Robert S. Bridges, Praveen Kulkarni, Craig F. Ferris

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: bold, breastfeeding, fmri, lactation, maternal behavior, multisensory, neural circuits, nursing, rats, sensory, suckling

2008

Understanding the perceptual world of horses

Authors: Carol A. Saslow

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: hearing, horse, olfaction, pain, perception, psychophysics, touch, training, umwelt, vision

2002

Ambient temperature does not affect the tactile sensitivity of mystacial vibrissae in harbour seals

Authors: G. Dehnhardt, B. Mauck, H. Hyvärinen

Publication/Journal: The Journal of Experimental Biology

Keywords: difference threshold, harbour seal, infrared thermography, phoca vitulina, temperature regulation, texture discrimination, vibrissae

1998

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