Domestic animal behavior for veterinarians and animal scientists /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houpt, Katherine A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1998.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Communication
  • Introduction
  • Perception
  • Horses
  • Audition
  • Vision
  • Olfaction
  • Dogs
  • Audition
  • Vision
  • Olfaction
  • Behavior problems
  • Cats
  • Audition
  • Vision
  • Olfaction
  • Behavior problems
  • Pigs
  • Audition
  • Vision
  • Olfaction
  • Cattle, sheep, and goats
  • Audition and vision
  • Olfaction
  • Aggression and social structure
  • Introduction
  • Categories of aggression
  • The Biological basis of aggression
  • Cattle
  • Free-ranging cattle
  • Confined cattle
  • Clinical cases of aggression
  • Sheep
  • Free-ranging sheep
  • Confined sheep
  • Goats
  • Free-ranging goats
  • Confined goats
  • Horses
  • Free-ranging horses
  • Domestic horses
  • Clinical problems
  • Pigs
  • Free-ranging pigs
  • Confined pigs
  • Dogs
  • Social behavior
  • Determinants of dominance
  • Territorial aggression
  • Fear-induced aggression
  • Aggression and hormonal influences
  • Predatory aggression
  • Guard dogs for predator control
  • Clinical problems
  • Cats
  • Free-ranging cats
  • Confined cats
  • Clinical problems
  • Biological rhythms and sleep
  • Biological rhythms and sleep
  • Introduction
  • High-frequency rhythms
  • Ultradian rhythms
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Other rhythms
  • Annual rhythms
  • Sleep
  • Patterns of sleep and activity in domestic animals
  • Dogs
  • Cats
  • Pigs
  • Horses
  • Cattle
  • Sheep
  • Goats
  • Clinical problems
  • Hyperactivity
  • Narcolepsay
  • Nocturnal wakefulness
  • Sexual behavior
  • Introduction
  • Physiological bases of sexual behavior
  • Social and sexual experience
  • The Central nervous system and the control of sexual behavior
  • Cattle
  • The Cow
  • Clinical problems of cows
  • The Bull
  • Clinical problems of bulls
  • Sheep
  • The Ewe
  • The Ram
  • Clinical problems of rams
  • Goats
  • Free-ranging goats
  • The Doe
  • The Buck
  • Clinical problems
  • Horses
  • Free-ranging horses
  • The Mare
  • Clinical problems of mares
  • The Stallion
  • Clinical problems of stallions
  • Pigs
  • The Sow
  • Clinical problems of sows
  • The Boar
  • Clinical problems of boars
  • Dogs
  • The Bitch
  • Clinical problems of bitches
  • The Dog
  • Clinical problems of dogs
  • Cats
  • Free-ranging cats
  • The Queen
  • Clinical problems of queens
  • The Tom
  • Clinical problems of toms
  • Maternal behavior
  • Introduction: general principles of maternal behavior
  • Internal factors that elicit maternal behavior
  • External factors that elicit maternal behavior
  • Pigs
  • The Free-ranging sow
  • The Group-housed sow
  • The Confined sow
  • Clinical problems
  • Sheep
  • Parturition
  • Behavior of the ewe toward the newborn lamb
  • Acceptance of the lamb
  • Clinical problems
  • Goats
  • Clinical problems
  • Cattle
  • Parturition
  • Bonding
  • Suckling
  • Weaning
  • Clinical problems
  • Horses
  • Parturition
  • Postparturient behavior
  • Suckling
  • Weaning
  • Mutual recognition
  • Clinical problems
  • Cats
  • Parturition
  • Suckling
  • Teat order
  • Homing and retrieval
  • Communal nests
  • Grooming
  • Acceptance of kittens
  • Clinical problems
  • Dogs
  • Parturition
  • Suckling
  • Licking
  • Weaning
  • Clinical problems
  • Development of behavior
  • Introduction
  • Dogs
  • Critical or sensitive periods
  • Neurological development
  • Sleep
  • Play
  • Relationships with humans
  • Feline temperament test
  • Clinical problems
  • Horses
  • The Foal's first day
  • The First year
  • The Juvenile period
  • Pigs
  • Sleep
  • Teat order
  • Feeding
  • Play
  • Elimination
  • Relationships with humans
  • Temperament tests
  • Ruminants
  • Lambs
  • Kids
  • Calves
  • Conclusion
  • Learning
  • Introduction
  • Types of learning
  • Formation and strengthening of a learned task
  • Rewards
  • Comparative intelligence
  • Methods of measurement
  • Problems of cross-species comparison
  • Summary
  • Pigs
  • Sex, breed,and age differences
  • Operant conditioning
  • Visual discrimination
  • Effect of drugs
  • Effect of malnutrition on learning
  • Dogs
  • - Housebreaking
  • Canine geriatric cognitive dysfunction
  • Breed differences
  • Cattle
  • Operant conditioning
  • Taste aversion
  • Visual and auditory discrimination
  • Effects of age
  • Sheep and goats
  • Horses
  • Operant conditioning
  • Visual discrimination
  • Maze learning
  • Observational learning
  • Influences on learning
  • Cats
  • Discrimination
  • Rewards
  • Brain stimulation
  • Conceptual learning
  • Imitation
  • Ingestive behavior: food and water intake
  • Introduction
  • General
  • Control of food intake in pigs
  • Meal patterns
  • Social facilitation
  • Palatability
  • Environmental temperature
  • Gastrointestinal factors
  • Estrogen levels
  • Feeding at parturition
  • Imbalance of dietary amino acids s-- Glucose utilization
  • Defense of body weight
  • Integration of factors that stimulate and inhibit intake in the central nervous system
  • Clinical problems
  • Control of food intake in dogs
  • Meal patterns
  • Social facilitation
  • Palatability
  • Environmental temperature
  • Gastrointestinal factors
  • Estrogen level
  • Glucose utiliation
  • Defense of body weight
  • Integration of factors that stimulate and inhibit intake in the central nervous system
  • Clinical problems
  • Control of food intake in cats
  • Meal patterns
  • Social facilitation
  • Palatability
  • Environmental temperature
  • Gastrointestinal factors
  • Hormonal effects
  • Glucose utilization
  • Defense of body weight
  • Integration of factors that stimulate and inhibit intake in the central nervous system
  • Clincal problems
  • Control of food intake in horses
  • Meal patterns
  • Social facilitation
  • Palatability
  • Grazing
  • Gastrointestinal factors
  • Central nervous system depressants
  • Defense of body weight
  • Clinical problems
  • Control of food intake in cattle
  • Meal patterns
  • Social facilitation
  • Palatability
  • Grazing and selectivity
  • Environmental temperature
  • Estrogen level
  • Rumen fill and the products of rumen fermentation
  • Humoral and central neural factors
  • Defense of body weight
  • Clinical problems
  • Control of food intake in sheep
  • Meal patterns
  • Social facilitation
  • Palatability
  • Defense of body weight
  • Rumen factors
  • Intestinal receptors
  • Grazing and selectivity
  • Environmental temperature
  • Hormonal factors
  • Glucose utilization
  • Central neural mechanisms
  • Control of food intake in goats
  • Meal patterns
  • Water intake
  • Increase in osmotic pressure
  • Decrease in blood volume
  • Angiotensin
  • Dry mouth
  • Multiple causes of thirst
  • Specific hungers and salt appetite
  • Miscellaneous behavioral disorders
  • The Interview
  • Behavioral history
  • Environment
  • Early history
  • Training
  • Other behavioral problems
  • Instructions
  • Dogs
  • Destructiveness
  • Self-mutilation
  • Tail chasing
  • Phobias
  • Running and car chasing
  • Backyard problems
  • Jumping up on people
  • Fly catching
  • Vomiting
  • Psychosomatic problems
  • Cats
  • Destructiveness
  • Withdrawal
  • Horses
  • Behavior problems in the stable
  • Trailering problems
  • Behavior problems under saddle
  • Phobias
  • Behavior-related problems
  • Physiologically based problems
  • Cattle and other farm animals
  • Cattle
  • Pigs
  • Sheep and goats
  • Appendix 1: separation anxiety
  • Appendix 2: animal ownership, history, and behavior records
  • Canine behavioral history
  • Cat owner questionnaire
  • Behavioral history form for horses
  • History form for foal rejecting mares
  • Behavioral history form for horses with trailer problems
  • Appendix 3: canine and ovine brains
  • Ventral view of canine brain
  • Median section of canine brain at the third ventricle and mesencephalic aqueduct
  • Transverse section of ovine brain at the level of the hypothalamus