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Cover for Sensory and neurologic faculties.

This chapter reviews the five senses in horses namely vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch and shows certain links with behaviour and welfare, both equine and human.

Author(s)
Riley, C. B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for The neurological underpinnings of behaviour.

This chapter provides an overview of the complex nervous system and its endocrine partner, which is important in understanding normal behaviour patterns and anomalies in horses.

Author(s)
Riley, C. B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Ingestion, elimination and comfort.

This chapter focuses on behaviours that maintain physiological homeostasis, including ingestion, elimination and comfort in horses. The latter includes grooming (hair and skincare) and sheltering behaviours that support thermoregulation and provide refuge from biting insects.

Author(s)
Riley, C. B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Equine transport.

This chapter reviews the recent advances regarding the behavioural, physical, physiological and welfare effects of transport in horses.

Author(s)
Padalino, B.; Riley, C. B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Foal function and welfare.

This chapter describes the health and welfare challenges of foals immediately after birth and during the first few months of life, and the behavioural norms of the developing foal. Emphasis is placed on the physical welfare associated with the more common health challenges. Sensitivity to...

Author(s)
Riley, C. B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Humane control, training and husbandry.

This chapter highlights the welfare aspects of handling, training, and restraining horses.

Author(s)
Riley, C. B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Development and assessment of equine behaviour.

This chapter describes the process of evaluating equine behaviour during domestication, learning, in cases with clinical conditions, and on equine welfare.

Author(s)
Waran, N. K.; Pearson, G.; Fraser, A. F.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Behavioural homeostasis, daily rhythms and advances in monitoring.

This chapter focuses on the importance of striving for homeostatic stability in a horse's daily behaviour and rhythms. Ensuring that this knowledge is available to horse people contributes to equine welfare.

Author(s)
Padalino, B.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Kinetic behaviour and athletic performance.

The horse has evolved as a cursorial herbivore. As such, much of its behaviour and physiology had adapted to be capable of large periods of low level activity such as walking and browsing interspersed with short bouts of high speed activity. These evolutionary adpatations have suited the horse...

Author(s)
Rogers, C. W.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Spatial factors.

This chapter describes the territoriality behaviour (home range and core home range, home range estimates, pastures and stabling and stall environment), spatiality, welfare and spacing (spatial needs and implications for management and sport) of horses.

Author(s)
Rogers, C. W.
ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book chapter

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