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Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care
Animal-based measures reflecting the welfare state of individuals are critical for ensuring the well-being of animals under human care. Anticipatory behavior is one potential animal-based measure that has gained traction in recent years, as it is theorized to relate to animals' reward sensitivi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9485936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36148468 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.972217 |
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author | Krebs, Bethany L. Chudeau, Karli R. Eschmann, Caitlin L. Tu, Celina W. Pacheco, Eridia Watters, Jason V. |
author_facet | Krebs, Bethany L. Chudeau, Karli R. Eschmann, Caitlin L. Tu, Celina W. Pacheco, Eridia Watters, Jason V. |
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description | Animal-based measures reflecting the welfare state of individuals are critical for ensuring the well-being of animals under human care. Anticipatory behavior is one potential animal-based measure that has gained traction in recent years, as it is theorized to relate to animals' reward sensitivity. It is of particular interest as an assessment for animals living under human care, as the predictability of the captive environment lends itself to the development of this class of behaviors. Animals are likely to exhibit anticipation in locations related to the anticipated event, often in temporally predictable time frames, and before specific contexts they experience in their day-to-day management. In this sense and under certain circumstances, anticipatory behaviors are likely to drive observed behavioral or space use patterns of animals under human care. Drawing conclusions from such data without identifying anticipation may result in misleading conclusions. Here we discuss how space, time, and context are related to patterns of anticipatory behaviors in animals under human care, how unidentified anticipation may alter conclusions regarding animal behavior or welfare under certain circumstances. |
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spelling | pubmed-94859362022-09-21 Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care Krebs, Bethany L. Chudeau, Karli R. Eschmann, Caitlin L. Tu, Celina W. Pacheco, Eridia Watters, Jason V. Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Animal-based measures reflecting the welfare state of individuals are critical for ensuring the well-being of animals under human care. Anticipatory behavior is one potential animal-based measure that has gained traction in recent years, as it is theorized to relate to animals' reward sensitivity. It is of particular interest as an assessment for animals living under human care, as the predictability of the captive environment lends itself to the development of this class of behaviors. Animals are likely to exhibit anticipation in locations related to the anticipated event, often in temporally predictable time frames, and before specific contexts they experience in their day-to-day management. In this sense and under certain circumstances, anticipatory behaviors are likely to drive observed behavioral or space use patterns of animals under human care. Drawing conclusions from such data without identifying anticipation may result in misleading conclusions. Here we discuss how space, time, and context are related to patterns of anticipatory behaviors in animals under human care, how unidentified anticipation may alter conclusions regarding animal behavior or welfare under certain circumstances. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9485936/ /pubmed/36148468 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.972217 Text en Copyright © 2022 Krebs, Chudeau, Eschmann, Tu, Pacheco and Watters. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Veterinary Science Krebs, Bethany L. Chudeau, Karli R. Eschmann, Caitlin L. Tu, Celina W. Pacheco, Eridia Watters, Jason V. Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
title | Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
title_full | Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
title_fullStr | Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
title_full_unstemmed | Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
title_short | Space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: Considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
title_sort | space, time, and context drive anticipatory behavior: considerations for understanding the behavior of animals in human care |
topic | Veterinary Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9485936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36148468 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.972217 |
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