ADC GAJDOŠ KMECOVÁ, Noema [65 %] - PEŤKOVÁ, Barbara [8 %] - KOTTFEROVÁ, Jana [5 %] - SKURKOVÁ, Lenka [5 %] - MILLS, Daniel Simon [17 %]. Are these cats playing? A closer look at social play in cats and proposal for a psychobiological approach and standard terminology. In Frontiers in veterinary science. ISSN 2297-1769, 2021, vol. 8, no., art. no. 712310, p. [1-14]. (2020: 3.412 - IF, 3.588 - IF 5y, 31 - H-index, 0.877 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q). Dostupné na internete: .

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OCA1. Surname awarded to the assessed person	Kottferová
OCA2. Name awarded to the assessed person	Jana
OCA3. Degrees awarded to the assessed person	Prof. , DVM, PhD
OCA4. Hyperlink to the entry of the person in the Register of university staff	https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/6055
OCA5. Area of assessment	study programme animal hygiene and environment · III. degree
OCA6. Category of the research/artistic/other output	scientific output
OCA7. Year of publication of the research/artistic/other output	2021
OCA8. ID of the record in the Central Registry of Publication Activity (CRPA) or the Central Registry of Artistic Activity (CRAA)	414894
OCA9. Hyperlink to the record in CRPA or CRAA	https://app.crepc.sk/?fn=detailBiblioFormChildA1501V&sid=AC8D3350B73BAD6B50669603B1&seo=CREP%C4%8C-detail-%C4%8Cl%C3%A1nok
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OCA10. Hyperlink to the record in another publicly accessible register, catalogue of research/ artistic/other outputs	https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000681631700001
OCA11. Characteristics of the output in the format of the CRPA or the CRAA bibliographic record, if the output is not available in a publicly accessible register or catalogue of outputs	ADC GAJDOŠ KMECOVÁ, Noema [65 %] - PEŤKOVÁ, Barbara [8 %] - KOTTFEROVÁ, Jana [5 %] - SKURKOVÁ, Lenka [5 %] - MILLS, Daniel Simon [17 %]. Are these cats playing? A closer look at social play in cats and proposal for a psychobiological approach and standard terminology. In Frontiers in veterinary science. ISSN 2297-1769, 2021, vol. 8, no., art. no. 712310, p. [1-14]. (2020: 3.412 - IF, 3.588 - IF 5y, 31 - H-index, 0.877 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q1 - JCR Best Q). Dostupné na internete: .
OCA12. Type of the output (if the output is not registered in CRPA or CRAA)	article
OCA13. Hyperlink to the webpage where the output is available (full text, other documentation, etc.)	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.712310/full
OCA14. Characteristics of the author's contribution	The author is responsible for the concept of the publication.
OCA15. Annotation of the output with contextual information concerning the description of creative process and the content of the research/artistic/other activity, etc.	Authors propose here adoption of a standard terminology and functional affective classification to play between cats considering emotion and motivation. Thus, a cat may be playing by itself, or be with another and perceiving it as an object (including prey), in which case the activity relates to the desire to learn about an individual\'s own capacity in relation to the physical environment; this should not be considered from a functional perspective to be social play, even if another cat is involved (i.e., it is a form of intercat play). At other times interaction with another cat may facilitate learning about the individual\'s capacity in relation to the social environment (including both social skills and social role), and in these circumstances we would argue that the interaction is from a functional perspective social play, which may or may not be mutual. Further it needs to be recognised that bouts of intercat interaction can start as mutual social play but can turn into intercat play, when reciprocity is lost or the interaction becomes truly agonistic. Such alternation between emotional-motivational states is not uncommon in cats and adds a layer of complexity not evident in some other species, such as the dog.
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OCA16. Annotation of the output in English	Play in domestic cats has been largely studied using a contextual approach, i.e., with a focus on what the cat is playing with, such as an object, itself or another cat. Such classification may be superficially attractive scientifically but it limits the ability to investigate function. We propose consideration of a psychobiological approach, which increases attention on hypotheses about the motivational and emotional state of the actors, may be more valuable. This may be particularly important in the case of intercat exchanges that might involve play, for example when one cat may chase another which does not want to be chased, the general interaction should not be considered playful. Key to improving the scientific study of such interactions is the need to adopt a common terminology, thus we synthesise a common ethogram from the published literature. Secondly at the heart of a psychobiological approach is a consideration of both the affective state and motivational goal of each actor in an interaction, since they may not be congruent, and recognition of the hypothetical nature of any such functional classification.
OCA17. List of maximum 5 most significant citations corresponding to the output
OCA18. Characteristics of the output's impact on socio-economic practice	This bottom up approach provides valuable insights that can be tested. We argue that when one cat treats another as an object or prey, such activity relates to the former cat seeking to learn about its own skills in relation to manipulating its physical environment (prey are not considered part of the complex social relationships and thus social environment of an individual).
OCA19. Characteristics of the output and related activities' impact on the educational process	The work studies the social play of cats, considering the affective and motivational goal of each actor in the interaction, synthesizes the ethogram. The results of the study will also be used in the educational process of the students.