Authors: D. S. Mills (Editor), Sue M. McDonnell
ISBN-13: 9780521891134, ISBN-10: 0521891132
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: New Edition
Daniel S. Mills is principal lecturer in behavioural studies and animal welfare and director of the animal behaviour referral clinic at the University of Lincoln. He is the first specialist in veterinary behavioural medicine to be formally recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and has published widely on behaviour problems in the domestic horse and is co-author of Equine Behaviour, Principles and Practice.
Sue M. McDonnell is an associate professor and founding head of the Havemeyer Equine Behavior Programme at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center. She has published widely on stallion sexual behaviour and dysfunction and is author of The Equid Ethogram, A Practical Field Guide to Horse Behavior.
This fascinating book gives an insight into the behaviour of the domestic horse. Suitable for scientists, professionals and enthusiastic owners.
1 | Domestication and early history of the horse | 5 |
2 | The horse in human society | 23 |
3 | Individual differences in the domestic horse, origins, development and stability | 33 |
4 | Behavioural ecology of feral horses | 55 |
5 | Relationships and communication in socially natural horse herds | 83 |
6 | Maintenance behaviours | 94 |
7 | Sexual behaviour | 110 |
8 | Maternal behaviour and mare-foal interaction | 126 |
9 | Ontogeny : preparing the young horse for its adult life | 139 |
10 | Equine play behaviour | 150 |
11 | Rider-horse relationship | 161 |
12 | Learning abilities in the horse | 169 |
13 | Horse training | 184 |
14 | Behavioural problems with the ridden horse | 196 |
15 | Repetitive movement problems in the horse | 212 |
16 | Equine behaviour and welfare | 228 |