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Human head orientation and eye visibility as indicators of attention for goats (
Article in PeerJ, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Does a Lack of Early Intensive Socialisation with Humans Exclude Goats from Participating in Animal-Assisted Services?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Do goats recognise humans cross-modally?PeerJ · 2025Article
- Cognition and the human-animal relationship: a review of the sociocognitive skills of domestic mammals toward humans.Animal cognition · 2022Review
- Humans and Goats: Improving Knowledge for a Better Relationship.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Pet-directed speech improves horses' attention toward humans.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Goats' Performance in Unsolvable Tasks Is Predicted by Their Reactivity Toward Humans, but Not Social Rank.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Farm Animal Cognition-Linking Behavior, Welfare and Ethics.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019Review
- Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
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Abstract
Animals domesticated for working closely with humans (e.g. dogs) have been shown to be remarkable in adjusting their behaviour to human attentional stance. However, there is little evidence for this form of information perception in species domesticated for production rather than companionship. We tested domestic ungulates (goats) for their ability to differentiate attentional states of humans. In the first experiment, we investigated the effect of body and head orientation of one human experimenter on approach behaviour by goats. Test subjects (
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