Ethologie

Ethologie

• Quantifying Equid Behavior—A Research Ethogram for Free-Roaming Feral Horses (pdf)

Affiliative behavior

• A case of co-operative nursing and offspring care by mother and daughter feral horses
• Affiliative relationships among Sorraia mares: influence of age, dominance, kinship and reproductive state (pdf)
• Behavior of feral horses in response to culling and GnRH immunocontraception
• Behavioral patterns and proximate reason of young male separation in Misaki feral horses
• Behaviour of Bachelor Males of the Przewalski Horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) at the Reserve Askania Nova
• Behavior patterns and communication in feral horses
• Behavioral patterns and proximate reason of young male separation in Misaki feral horses
• Behavioural observations of reintroduced Takhi or Przewalski horses (Equus ferus przewalskii) in Mongolia
• Causes of natal dispersal and emigration and their effects on harem formation in Misaki feral horses
• Characterization of anticipatory behaviour in domesticated horses
• Coping in groups of domestic horses – Review from a social and neurobiological perspective
• Coprophagy as an avenue for foals of the domestic horse to learn food preferences from their dams
• Differences in social behaviour between late pregnant, post-partum and barren mares in a herd of Icelandic horses
• Effects of fly disturbance on the behaviour of a population of reintroduced Przewalski horses (Equus ferus przewalskii) in Mongolia
• Equid Play Ethogram (pdf)
• Factors affecting the harem formation process by young Misaki feral stallions
• Factors That Affect Harem Stability in a Feral Horse (Equus caballus) Population on Shackleford Banks island, NC (pdf)
• Formation and dissolution of the mare–foal bond
• Grooming at a preferred site reduces heart rate in horses
• Maternal behavior of Belgian mares
• Maternal care and foal social relationships in a herd of Sorraia horses: Influence of maternal rank and experience
• Monitoring of agnostic behaviours and foal mortality in free-ranging Przewalski’s horse harems in the Mongolian Gobi (2009) (pdf)
• Mutual grooming and nearest-neighbor relationships among foals of Equus caballus
• Play behaviour of Przewalski horses (pdf)
• Post-conflict friendly reunion in a permanent group of horses
• Self-grooming by mares and foals of the Welsh pony
• Social interactions of free-ranging Przewalski horses in semi-reserves in the Netherlands
• Social structure and interactions in groups of horses containing stallions (pdf)
• Social organization of feral horses
• Social bonds between unrelated females increase reproductive success in feral horses (pdf)
• Stallion Mate Choice and Mare Sexual Behaviour in a Herd of Sorraia Horses (Equus caballus) (pdf)
• The effect of stallions on social interactions in domestic and semi feral harems
• The effects of immunocontraception on harem fidelity in a feral horse (Equus caballus) population
• The importance of social relationships in horses (pdf, dissertation)
• The Potential Effects of Social Interactions on Reproductive Efficiency of Stallions

Agonistic behavior

• Aggression and social spacing in light horse mares and foals
• Agonistic ethogram of the equid bachelor band (pdf)
• Dominance relationships and aggression of foals
• Dominance hierarchies in domestic horses
• Dominance relationships and aggression of foals
• Exploring aggression regulation in managed groups of horses
• Factors Affecting Dominance and Aggressive Interactions Among Castrated Male Domestic Horses (pdf)
• Harem stability and reproductive success of Misaki feral mares
• Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses’ behavior (pdf)
• Interband dominance in feral horses
• Nursing behaviour and maternal aggression among Welsh ponies
• Social feeding decisions in horses (Equus caballus)
• The benefits of high rank in the wintertime—A study of the Icelandic horse
• The effect of stallions on social interactions in domestic and semi feral harems
• The position of the stallion in the equine dominance hierarchy of feral and domestic ponies (pdf)
• The stability of equine dominance hierarchies and the effects of kinship, proximity and foaling status on hierarchy rank

Time budget and habitat use

• Behavior of horses on pasture in relation to weather and shelter – a field study in a temperate climate
• Daytime rest behavior of the Welsh pony (Equus caballus) mare and foal
• Different daily patterns of serum cortisol and locomotor activity rhythm in horses under natural photoperiod
• Home range and habitat use of free-ranging Przewalski horses at Hustai National Park, Mongolia
• Influences of immunocontraception on time budgets, social behavior, and body condition in feral horses
• Takhi’s home range and water point use (2003) (pdf)
• Play development in Welsh pony foals
• Seasonal movements and home ranges of feral horse bands in Wyoming’s Red Desert (pdf)
• The 24-hour time budget of Przewalski horses
• The effect of enclosure size on social interactions and daily activity patterns of the captive Asiatic wild horse (Equus przewalskii)
• Time budgets of adult Przewalski horses: Effects of sex, reproductive status and enclosure
• Time-Budgets of Camargue Horses I. Developmental Changes in the Time-Budgets of Foals
• Time-Budgets of Camargue Horses Ii. Time-Budgets of Adult Horses and Weaned Sub-Adults
• Time-Budgets of Camargue Horses Iii. Environmental Influences

Evolution

• European Domestic Horses Originated in Two Holocene Refugia (pdf)
• Origin and History of Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Domestic Horses (pdf)
• The role of genes, epigenetics and ontogeny in behavioural development