Effects of imprint training procedure at birth on the reactions of foals at age six months.
Equine Vet J
; 35(2): 127-32, 2003 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY While imprint training procedures have been promoted in popular magazines, they have received limited scientific investigation. OBJECTIVES:
To determine the effects of a neonatal imprint training procedure on 6-month-old foals and to determine if any one session had a greater effect than others.METHODS:
Foals (n = 131) were divided into the following treatments no imprint training, imprint training at birth, 12, 24 and 48 h after birth or imprint training only at birth, 12, 24, 48, or 72 h after birth. Foals then received minimal human handling until they were tested at 6 months.RESULTS:
During training, time to complete exposure to the stimulus was significant for only 2 of 6 stimuli. Percentage change in baseline heart rate was significant for only 2 of 10 stimuli. These 4 effects were randomly spread across treatments.CONCLUSIONS:
Neither the number of imprint training sessions (0, 1, or 4) nor the timing of imprint training sessions (none, birth, 12, 24, 48, or 72 h after birth) influenced the foal's behaviour at 6 months of age. POTENTIAL CLINICAL RELEVANCE In this study, imprint training did not result in better behaved, less reactive foals.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Comportamento Animal
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Vínculo Humano-Animal
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Cavalos
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Fixação Psicológica Instintiva
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Animais Recém-Nascidos
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Animals
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article