Working animals spend hours each day in close contact with humans and require training to understand commands and fulfil specific tasks. However, factors driving cooperation …
S Ukonaho, V Berger… - Conservation …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Free-living species exhibit seasonal variation in various life history traits, including vital rates such as birth and death patterns. Different physiological mechanisms are thought to underlie …
O Liehrmann, A Viitanen, V Riihonen, E Alander… - Applied Animal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite numerous studies emerging on the human-horse relationship, significant gaps exist in the identification of the horse and handler factors that influence the quality of their …
O Liehrmann, C Cosnard, V Riihonen, A Viitanen… - Animal cognition, 2023 - Springer
Cues such as the human pointing gesture, gaze or proximity to an object are widely used in behavioural studies to evaluate animals' abilities to follow human-given cues. Many …
Slowly reproducing and long-lived terrestrial mammals are often more at risk from challenges that influence fitness and survival. It is, therefore, important to understand how …
LB Fink, A Mukobi, L Gruber, C Reed, J DeLibero… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Between May 2018 and December 2020, three orangutans (P. p. pygmaeus and P. p. abelii) were housed at a holding facility (Veterinary Medical Center …
Although social behaviour is common in group-living mammals, our understanding of its mechanisms in long-lived animals is largely based on studies in human and non-human …
T Tadich, JB Rodrigues - The Routledge International Handbook …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The use of animals for work is an ancient activity that has allowed communities to develop in different aspects including transport, agriculture, and forestry. The most frequent species …
Background: The intestinal tract of practically all animals is inhabited by a diverse microorganism referred to as gut microbiome. The importance of gut microbiome to its host is …