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Domestic horses (Equus caballus) discriminate between negative and positive human nonverbal vocalisations

The ability to discriminate between emotion in vocal signals is highly adaptive in social species. It may also be adaptive for domestic species to distinguish such signals in humans. Here we present a playback study investigating whether horses spontaneously respond in a functionally relevant way to...

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Autores principales: Smith, Amy Victoria, Proops, Leanne, Grounds, Kate, Wathan, Jennifer, Scott, Sophie K, McComb, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6115467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30158532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30777-z