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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: kelly58 on August 27, 2015, 11:16:51 am
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Does anyone know of a book l could buy about the psychology of sheep ?
Read so many posts on sheep behavior l am curious to learn more. :thinking:
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Livestock Behaviour by Kilgour & Dalton
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I managed to find this book (https://books.google.com/books?id=vFX8fJp6pmoC&pg=PA82) online a few months ago. Chapter 5 gives a good introduction.
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you could try a book by Froyd. Of course, it will be about the psychology of humans but they are much the same as sheep....only less likeable. Present company excepted of course. :-J
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Any relation to Freud? :thinking:
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Temple Grandin gives a good insight, from the perspective of a sufferer of Asperger's Syndrome, of what life looks like to a sheep. Having just had an RPA sheep inspection mine are totally bemused by human behaviour. Why would they have to be bundled through the race whilst a strange man waves a beeping stick over their tags? Humans are SO odd!
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Any relation to Freud? :thinking:
Its his mother
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This is a totally useless reply, but my late aunt, who was a research scientist back in the day, co-wrote a book about sheep behavioural psychology in about the '60s. It was based on long and very tedious (or so it seems to me) research on Oz sheep stations as well as closer to home. She would sit for long hours, plagued by the dreaded Ozzie fly, noting down every tiny thing the sheep did. Some of her research was with Soay back in Britain, whose behaviour bears no comparison with their distant Oz cousins. I do have a copy of the book, but I'm sure it's been out of print for decades. See, totally useless ;D
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Well Fleecewife, I for one think it fascinating that your Aunt was a sheep psychology pioneer. Many years go I came across Prof Timbergen on Ravenglass bird reserve studying adders. I was not so keen to find them.......
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Well Fleecewife, I for one think it fascinating that your Aunt was a sheep psychology pioneer. Many years go I came across Prof Timbergen on Ravenglass bird reserve studying adders. I was not so keen to find them.......
I see you are from Cambs - that's where my aunt was based - Babraham, where she kept her Soays.
I didn't know Tinbergen studied adders - yes, not quite so harmless as sheep. Wasn't his initial research on bird fixation?
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This is a totally useless reply, but my late aunt, who was a research scientist back in the day, co-wrote a book about sheep behavioural psychology in about the '60s. It was based on long and very tedious (or so it seems to me) research on Oz sheep stations as well as closer to home. She would sit for long hours, plagued by the dreaded Ozzie fly, noting down every tiny thing the sheep did. Some of her research was with Soay back in Britain, whose behaviour bears no comparison with their distant Oz cousins. I do have a copy of the book, but I'm sure it's been out of print for decades. See, totally useless ;D
Whats the name of the book, book NO. etc, etc? Maybe we could find a copy on amazon/ebay?