ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2018
Can Donkey Behavior and Cognition Be Used to Trace Back, Explain, or Forecast Moon Cycle and Weather Events?
Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Drivers of artificial insemination fertility in Murciano-Granadina goats: a ten-year multifactorial approach integrating buck-doe interactions across physiological, environmental, and management conditions.BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- The effect of photoperiod, environmental temperature and wind speed on external quality of free-range turkey eggs.PloS one · 2025Article
- Judgement Bias in Miniature Donkeys: Conditioning Factors and Personality Links.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Donkeys have been reported to be highly sensitive to environmental changes. Their 8900⁻8400-year-old evolution process made them interact with diverse environmental situations that were very distant from their harsh origins. These changing situations not only affect donkeys' short-term behavior but may also determine their long-term cognitive skills from birth. Thus, animal behavior becomes a useful tool to obtain past, present or predict information from the environmental situation of a particular area. We performed an operant conditioning test on 300 donkeys to assess their response type, mood, response intensity, and learning capabilities, while we simultaneously registered 14 categorical environmental factors. We quantified the effect power of such environmental factors on donkey behavior and cognition. We used principal component analysis (CATPCA) to reduce the number of factors affecting each behavioral variable and built categorical regression (CATREG) equations to model for the effects of potential factor combinations. Effect power ranged from 7.9% for the birth season on learning (
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