Goats (Capra hircus) From Different Selection Lines Differ in Their Behavioural Flexibility.

ABSTRACT: Given that domestication provided animals with more stable environmental conditions, artificial selection by humans has likely affected animals' ability to learn novel contingencies and their ability to adapt to changing environments. In addition, the selection for specific traits in domestic animals might have an additional impact on subjects' behavioural flexibility, but also their general learning performance, due to a re-allocation of resources towards parameters of productivity. To test whether animals bred for high productivity would experience a shift towards lower learning performance, we compared the performance of dwarf goats (not selected for production, 15 subjects) and dairy goats (selected for high milk yield, 18 subjects) in a visual discrimination learning and reversal lear

SUBMITTER: Nawroth C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844551 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature