Domestic goats, Capra hircus, follow gaze direction and use social cues in an object choice task

By Juliane Kaminski, J. Riedel, J. Call, Michael Tomasello. 2005

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Subfields: Genetics, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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In Genetics

1. Michael Tomasello
2. J. Call
3. Juliane Kaminski
4. J. Bräuer
5. K. McComb
6. M. Walton
7. L. Proops
8. E. Briefer

In Small Animals

1. Juliane Kaminski
2. M. Walton
3. J. Call
4. Michael Tomasello
5. A. McElligott
6. E. Briefer
7. K. Kotrschal
8. K. McComb

In Social Psychology

1. Michael Tomasello
2. J. Call
3. Juliane Kaminski
4. Thomas Bugnyar
5. J. Bräuer
6. K. Kotrschal
7. K. McComb
8. M. Walton

Citations in the corpus

• Social effects on vocal ontogeny in an ungulate, the goat, Capra hircus (2012, background): “We investigated social impacts on acoustic communication in goats, a highly vocal and social species (Saunders et al. 2005; Briefer &McElligott 2011a, b), with sophisticated cognitive skills (Kaminski et al. 2005; Langbein et al. 2008).”
• Gaze following in common ravens, Corvus corax: ontogeny and habituation (2007, background): “…or hand-reared animals; e.g. Call et al. 2000; Bugnyar et al. 2004), living conditions (wild versus captive animals; e.g. Anderson et al. 1995; Flombaum & Santos 2005) or experiences before the experiments (na€ıve versus enculturated animals; e.g. Scheumann & Call 2004; Kaminski et al. 2005).”
• Gaze following in human infants depends on communicative signals. (2008, neutral): “Gaze-following behavior has been demonstrated in a wide range of animal species, such as nonhuman primates [16– 18], goats [14], and ravens [15].”
• Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human's perspective (2009, background): “…direction or knowing when they are being watched (ravens: Heinrich & Pepper, 1998; Bugnyar et al., 2004; scrub jays: Emery & Clayton, 2001; goats: Kaminski et al., 2005) — in some cases even using gaze direction and/or gestures as communicative cues (goats: Kaminski et al., 2005; seals:…”
• The use of human-given cues by domestic horses, Equus caballus, during an object choice task (2010, background): “Goats spontaneously use pointing and tapping cues but not head and gaze orientation alone, indicating that they may be using the more basic mechanism of stimulus enhancement rather than comprehending the communicative nature of the cues provided (Kaminski et al. 2005).”