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Animals, Volume 1, Issue 4 (December 2011), Pages 326-446 Release issue

Dear Readers,
We are pleased to announce the publication of the following issue:Animals, Volume 1, Issue 4 (December 2011), Pages 326-446 at http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/

Table of Contents:

Sigfrido Burgos-Cáceres
Review: Canine Rabies: A Looming Threat to Public Health
Animals 2011, 1(4), 326-342; doi:10.3390/ani1040326
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/326/

S. Niggol Seo and Bruce McCarl
Article: Managing Livestock Species under Climate Change in Australia
Animals 2011, 1(4), 343-365; doi:10.3390/ani1040343
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/343/

Catherine McGowan
Review: Welfare of Aged Horses
Animals 2011, 1(4), 366-376; doi:10.3390/ani1040366
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/366/

Danielle M. Tack and Mary G. Reynolds
Review: Zoonotic Poxviruses Associated with Companion Animals
Animals 2011, 1(4), 377-395; doi:10.3390/ani1040377
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/377/

Xingtai Wang, Barbara G. Werner, Sandra Smole, Vasil Pani and Linda L. Han
Article: Signs Observed Among Animal Species Infected with Raccoon Rabies Variant Virus, Massachusetts, USA, 1992–2010
Animals 2011, 1(4), 396-401; doi:10.3390/ani1040396
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/396/

Nicholas Johnson, Alex Nunez, Denise A. Marston, Graeme Harkess, Katja Voller, Trudy Goddard, Daniel Hicks, Lorraine M. McElhinney and Anthony R. Fooks
Article: Investigation of an Imported Case of Rabies in a Juvenile Dog with Atypical Presentation
Animals 2011, 1(4), 402-413; doi:10.3390/ani1040402
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/402/

Samantha Dozier, Jeffrey Brown and Alistair Currie
Article: Bridging the Gap Between Validation and Implementation of Non-Animal Veterinary Vaccine Potency Testing Methods
Animals 2011, 1(4), 414-432; doi:10.3390/ani1040414
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/414/

Sara E. Place, Yuee Pan, Yongjing Zhao and Frank M. Mitloehner
Article: Construction and Operation of a Ventilated Hood System for Measuring Greenhouse Gas and Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Cattle
Animals 2011, 1(4), 433-446; doi:10.3390/ani1040433
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/1/4/433/


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Animal Cognition: Behavioral Studies and Theory Formation

Workshop-Announcement & Call for Posters

Animal Cognition: Behavioral Studies and Theory Formation

June 28-30, 2012

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

www.rub.de/philosophy/animalcognition

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Call for Posters

We invited poster presentation as part of our symposium and will financially support the presenters.

Posters should be submitted in a completed format or to be described by an abstract of 700 words.

Submissions are to be made with EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/conference_dir.cgi?a=c154ef30c89d 

*Submission deadline: May 15th, 2012*

Poster presentations will be supported with up to 75,00€, respectively with up to 150,00€ when the participant are arriving from outside Germany. All travel costs can only be reimbursed on basis of receipts.

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Workshop-Description

Animal Cognition: Behavioral Studies and Theory Formation

June 28-30, 2012

Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

www.rub.de/philosophy/animalcognition

The workshop aims to discuss the recent developments in the growing field of investigating the cognitive abilities of animals. We intend to structure the presentations and discussions by focusing on four interconnected key questions: 1. What methodological principles should govern investigation of animal cognition and interpretation of observations of animal behavior? 2. How can recent findings about cognition in corvids and primates be integrated with neuroscientific data on brain evolution into theories of cognitive evolution and views about an anthropological borderline between humans and animals? 3. To what extent can we find symbolic understanding in animals? Since understanding symbolic and a recursive structure is one of the recent candidates for an anthropological borderline, one question for discussion is whether this still marks a clear species difference. 4. Empirical work has steadily accumulated suggesting the paradigm examples of 'merely associative' behaviors have striking ties to attention and central control, leading some to argue that these behaviors are better explained by appeal to cognition. This raises a question: Does a purely associative link-forming mechanism exist at all, or is learning cognitive all the way down in both humans and animals?

The workshop consists of four sections:

1. Methodology and Interpretation of Behavioral Studies (Convener: Prof. Colin Allen, Bloomington)

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Louise Barrett (Lethbridge), Prof. Hanjo Glock (Zürich)

2. Evolution of Brain and Cognition (Convener: Prof. Onur Güntürkün, Bochum)

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Josep Call (Leipzig), Prof. Thomas Bugnyar (Wien)

3. Symbolic Understanding: To what extent can we find symbolic understanding in animals? (Convener: Prof. Albert Newen, Bochum)

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Julia Fischer (Göttingen), Prof. Tecumseh Fitch (Wien) 

4. Cognition versus Association: Does “mere association” even exist? Or is it cognition “all the way down”? (Convener: Prof. Cameron Buckner, Houston)

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Tom Beckers (Amsterdam), Prof. John D. Greenwood (New York)

CALL FOR POSTERS and contact, see: www.rub.de/philosophy/animalcognition 
Deadline for poster submission: 15th of May 2012

Registration (There will be no fees): Please register before 31st of May 2012 by sending an email to:  Tobias.Starzak@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Scientific Organization:  Prof. Albert Newen (Bochum), Prof. Colin Allen (Bloomington), Prof. Onur Güntürkün (Bochum), Dr. Cameron Buckner (Houston)