caa a22 4500 605542236 CHVBK 20210128100920.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10071-015-0852-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10071-015-0852-6 Horses fail to use social learning when solving spatial detour tasks [Elektronische Daten] [Maria Rørvang, Line Ahrendt, Janne Christensen] Social animals should have plenty of opportunities to learn from conspecifics, but most studies have failed to document social learning in horses. This study investigates whether young Icelandic horses can learn a spatial detour task through observation of a trained demonstrator horse of either the same age (Experiments 1 and 2, n=22) or older (Experiment 3, n=24). Observer horses were allowed to observe the demonstrator being led three times through the detour route immediately before being given the opportunity to solve the task themselves. Controls were allowed only to observe the demonstrator horse eating at the final position, but not the demonstration of the route. Although we found a tendency towards better performance by observer horses in the second experiment, we were unable to repeat this result in a similar set-up with a new group of horses and older, dominant demonstrator horses. We conclude that horses exposed to prior demonstration did not perform better than control horses in solving spatial detour tasks. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Horse nationallicence Social learning nationallicence Spatial detour task nationallicence Motivation nationallicence Dominance nationallicence Social relationships nationallicence Rørvang Maria Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830, Tjele, Denmark aut Ahrendt Line Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830, Tjele, Denmark aut Christensen Janne Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830, Tjele, Denmark aut Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/4(2015-07-01), 847-854 1435-9448 18:4<847 2015 18 10071 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0852-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0852-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rørvang Maria Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830, Tjele, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ahrendt Line Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830, Tjele, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Christensen Janne Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830, Tjele, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/4(2015-07-01), 847-854 1435-9448 18:4<847 2015 18 10071