PSYCO403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Irene Pepperberg, Thermoregulation, Bipedalism
5 Apr 2016
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Behaviour basics: vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste. Behavioural attributes and uses of common breeds. Horse ancestor is a pony-shaped mongolian wild horse, przewalski"s horse (equis ferus przewalski) True horses (equis ferus caballus) occupied the eurasian lowlands north of the great mountain ranges. Despite sometimes great morphological differences, all the breeds, groups, and types of domestic horses belong to one species (e. f. callabus) Typically use wild mustangs (feral horses) as comparison species to domesticated horses. Two distinct types (e. f. callabus: 1. May need to traverse extreme terrains for long periods. Highly trainable but more headstrong than cold bloods: in-between these two are the warm-bloods". Docile of cold bloods, but initiative of hot bloods. For behavioural comparison, many use feral horses rather than the przewalski horse with domesticated horses. Horses can see objects clearly but also maintain distant watchfulness: panoramic vision of 330 - 350 .
