AQA • Animal Management

This document provides an essay-structured article on canine behaviour, assessing how environmental factors contribute to the welfare of dogs, Pavlov's Dog Theory of conditioned responses, enrichment and welfare needs, environmental management, medical factors, reinforcement and training methods, LIMA hierarchy, learning theories, normal and abnormal behaviours, abnormalities within dogs, and photographic references. Assigned work graded to a Distinction standard.

This document provides a detailed analysis on farmed animals, relative legislations that apply to farmed animals and the requirements for compliance, enforcing the legislation, ethical considerations, dietary requirements of ruminants, and references.

This document includes a fully-detailed portfolio that provides details of how to conduct a physical health check, faecal flotations, TPR (temperature, pulse and respiratory rate) annual preventative care sheets, and photographic evidence of undertaking a health check on multiple animals.

This document provides a Distinction standard (graded) observation on equine behaviour, including the methodology, materials, introduction, conclusion, abstract, results and discussion, recommendations, and several bar charts, graphs, and pie charts in relation to conducting a practical equine behaviour observation in a scientific poster layout.

This presentation provides a brief explanation on conspecific social behaviours exhibited by equines, and the body language they use to express their mood status and communicate.

This document provides recordings of a previously conducted practical equine behaviour observation using an instantaneous method to record behaviours exhibited by horses. Assigned work graded to a Distinction standard.

This document contains essay material, providing details on equine lifestyle including the dietary requirements and feeding methods, circadian rhythm, conspecific social behaviours, eusocial behaviours, solitary behaviours, factors effecting lifestyle such as environmental factors, and a comparison of wild and captive horses. Assigned work graded a Distinction standard.

This document contains ethograms, data analysis, behaviour observation, life cycles, and behaviour analysis in relation to equine-specific behaviours, body language, and conspecific social behaviours in full detail. Assigned work graded to a Distinction standard.

This document contains a Equine-specific Ethogram which analyses the body language that horses exhibit to communicate and conspecific social behaviours. Includes several different body language cues, picture examples, and an explanation on the meaning of these.

This document provides an analysis of equine behaviour, assessing how horses use body language to communicate and conspecific social behaviours.