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Equine Learning
Title: Equine Learning
Category: Science & Technology / Biology
Details: Words: 3341 | Pages: 14.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Equine Learning
Learning and the Horse Learning may be defined as changes in an animal's internal behavioural organisation that depend on reinforcing properties of experience of its environment. ( Domjan et al cited in Murphy 2003).
Throughout its life, a horse's innate abilities and instinctive responses are shaped, refined and extended by learning. Experiences are perceived by the horse through their five senses (sight, hearing, olfaction, taste, touch) which results in the formation of memories and lasting changes in …showed first 75 words of 3341 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3341 total…Western Horseman Inc., 1993;p.6.
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Wolff, A. and Hausberger, M., 1996. Learning and memorisation of two different tasks in the horse: the effects of age, sex and sire. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 46, pp.137-143.
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