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Is the study of the behavior of animals in their natural
WHAT IS ETHOLOGY?
surroundings, with its focus on instinctive or innate behavior.
• Lack of response to a repeated stimulus
• Called Conditioning
• Classical-association between an unconditioned stimulus & a
• Habituation
neutral stimulus (Pavlov's Dogs)
• Operant-learning to respond to a stimulus as a result of
reinforcement
1.Sexual Behavior
11. Maladaptive Behavior
2.Maternal Behavior
3. Communication Behavior
4. Social Behavior
Interaction with Other Animals
Systems of Animal Behavior, 5. Social Behavior
• Ten identified systems Interaction with Humans
6.Feeding Behavior
Ingestive
7. Eliminative Behavior
8. Shelter-Seeking
Behavior 9.Investigative
10.Allelomimetic Behavior
• Feces and Urine
• Cattle, sheep, goats, horses, chickens are indiscriminate
• Hogs will defecate in a particular area
• Eliminative Behavior • Horses will defecate on the scent of another horse
• Cattle defecate 12-18 times daily
• Horses defecate 5-12
• Urinate ~7-11x/d
• Doing the same thing at the same time, grazing, rest and
• Allelomimetic Behavior
rumination.
• Maladaptive or Abnormal • Animals that cannot adopt to a new environment, or exhibit
Behavior inappropriate behavior
• An animal's temperament is one determinant of how it will react
during handling; it is determined by an interaction between a
substantial genetic effect and environmental factors.
Temperament
• A major component of temperament is fearfulness.
• Measuring blood cortisol levels is a means of measuring an
animal's response to a stress.
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, • subcortical circuit in the brain that allows an animal to flee
Fear memories form a
quickly if it sees or hears the same frightening stimulus.
• Novelty, anything new or sudden in an animal's environment, is a
• Effects of Novelty
very strong stressor.
• Livestock have wide-angle vision; cattle, pigs, and sheep have a
visual field in excess of 300 degrees.
• Vision
• This means that objects in over 80% of the space around them
can distract them.
• Brahman and Brahman crossbred cattle are more excitable and
harder to handle than English breeds.
• Genetic factors affect an
animal's reaction to handling.
• Angus cattle are more excitable than Herefords, and Holsteins
move more slowly than Angus or Herefords.
For all species, solid sides are • chute and crowd pen that leads to a squeeze chute or loading
recommended on both ramp.
Curved single-file chutes are cattle
especially recommended for
handling
• First, it prevents the animal from seeing what is at the other end
of the chute until it is almost there.
• A curved chute is more efficient
for two reasons.
• Second, it takes advantage of the animal's natural tendency to
circle around a handler moving along the inner radius.
• The crowd pen used to direct animals into a single-file or
double- file chute must never be built on a ramp.
• Crowd Pen Design
• Round crowd pens are very efficient for all species.
The crowd pen for pigs or cattle • half to three-quarters full; half full is best.
should be only
movement and restraint
When the handler is outside the flight zone but had entered the
zone of awareness the animals will turn and face the handler and
maintain a safe distance. When animals become accustomed to a
calm handler and learn to trust the handler they will have less of
pressure zone
a tendency to look at the handler. They will walk away straight
without turning. The animals have learned that the calm handler
will back up and remove pressure from the flight zone when they
go where the handler wants them to
1. Psychological
2. Sensory diminishment
Types of Restraint 3. Use of confining alleys, chutes, and barriers
4. Use of tools and physical force
5.Chemical sedation or immobilization
• Human voice can be used as a restraint tool
Psychological Restraint
• Animals can perceive tones (authority, confidence, fear) and
respond to them
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Terms in this set (210)
Is the study of the behavior of animals in their natural
WHAT IS ETHOLOGY?
surroundings, with its focus on instinctive or innate behavior.
• Lack of response to a repeated stimulus
• Called Conditioning
• Classical-association between an unconditioned stimulus & a
• Habituation
neutral stimulus (Pavlov's Dogs)
• Operant-learning to respond to a stimulus as a result of
reinforcement
1.Sexual Behavior
11. Maladaptive Behavior
2.Maternal Behavior
3. Communication Behavior
4. Social Behavior
Interaction with Other Animals
Systems of Animal Behavior, 5. Social Behavior
• Ten identified systems Interaction with Humans
6.Feeding Behavior
Ingestive
7. Eliminative Behavior
8. Shelter-Seeking
Behavior 9.Investigative
10.Allelomimetic Behavior
• Feces and Urine
• Cattle, sheep, goats, horses, chickens are indiscriminate
• Hogs will defecate in a particular area
• Eliminative Behavior • Horses will defecate on the scent of another horse
• Cattle defecate 12-18 times daily
• Horses defecate 5-12
• Urinate ~7-11x/d
• Doing the same thing at the same time, grazing, rest and
• Allelomimetic Behavior
rumination.
• Maladaptive or Abnormal • Animals that cannot adopt to a new environment, or exhibit
Behavior inappropriate behavior
• An animal's temperament is one determinant of how it will react
during handling; it is determined by an interaction between a
substantial genetic effect and environmental factors.
Temperament
• A major component of temperament is fearfulness.
• Measuring blood cortisol levels is a means of measuring an
animal's response to a stress.
1/9
, • subcortical circuit in the brain that allows an animal to flee
Fear memories form a
quickly if it sees or hears the same frightening stimulus.
• Novelty, anything new or sudden in an animal's environment, is a
• Effects of Novelty
very strong stressor.
• Livestock have wide-angle vision; cattle, pigs, and sheep have a
visual field in excess of 300 degrees.
• Vision
• This means that objects in over 80% of the space around them
can distract them.
• Brahman and Brahman crossbred cattle are more excitable and
harder to handle than English breeds.
• Genetic factors affect an
animal's reaction to handling.
• Angus cattle are more excitable than Herefords, and Holsteins
move more slowly than Angus or Herefords.
For all species, solid sides are • chute and crowd pen that leads to a squeeze chute or loading
recommended on both ramp.
Curved single-file chutes are cattle
especially recommended for
handling
• First, it prevents the animal from seeing what is at the other end
of the chute until it is almost there.
• A curved chute is more efficient
for two reasons.
• Second, it takes advantage of the animal's natural tendency to
circle around a handler moving along the inner radius.
• The crowd pen used to direct animals into a single-file or
double- file chute must never be built on a ramp.
• Crowd Pen Design
• Round crowd pens are very efficient for all species.
The crowd pen for pigs or cattle • half to three-quarters full; half full is best.
should be only
movement and restraint
When the handler is outside the flight zone but had entered the
zone of awareness the animals will turn and face the handler and
maintain a safe distance. When animals become accustomed to a
calm handler and learn to trust the handler they will have less of
pressure zone
a tendency to look at the handler. They will walk away straight
without turning. The animals have learned that the calm handler
will back up and remove pressure from the flight zone when they
go where the handler wants them to
1. Psychological
2. Sensory diminishment
Types of Restraint 3. Use of confining alleys, chutes, and barriers
4. Use of tools and physical force
5.Chemical sedation or immobilization
• Human voice can be used as a restraint tool
Psychological Restraint
• Animals can perceive tones (authority, confidence, fear) and
respond to them
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