animal human interaction Flashcards
Affiliative behavior def
Affiliative behavior refers to actions or behaviors that promote social connection, cooperation, and bonding between individuals or groups.
examples of indicators of social relashionship? between humans and animals
communication. ex via body language, posture, gaze, vocals
can humans provide comfort to animals? give ex
yes
ex imprinting or dog stops barking when O is home
a true social relahsionship between humans and cattle dont use fence. they use…
cattle social behaviour to control them. become a part of the herd
training dogs w treats is a form of communication? Y/N?
no. this is operant training. they do something for a reward
traning does nto equal relashionship. there is A relashionship but the motivation is differnet. it is not relashoinship based
ex of communicatoin with sound between human and animal
whistle training border collie
if a social relashionship w a persion then the animal must have X and X of the person
memory and recogniton
is there is memory and recognition then we know its a…
social relashionshp
there is also an influecne by genetics, timing and different motivations of the relash
cues for recognition: cattle use mainly..
dominance is controlled by..
smell
mainly use visual and smell
cues for recognition: sheep
mainly use..
visual
also use smell of mothering
cues for recognition: pigs
rely on these 3 types of recognition
visual, olfactory and acoustic
cues for recognition: dogs
mainly use..
olfactory
cues for recognition: cats
mainly use 2
visoin and olfactory
humans are selecting for tameness?
yes
there is difference in breeds, species and individuals
What influences the response of farm animals to
people?
genetics, learning, breed, stockmanship
bad stockmanship causes increase in…
cortisol/stress/HPA axis
What influences the response of farm animals to
people?: learning
the 3 mechanisms why this occurs
-habituation
- classical conditioning
-imprinting
