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Author McGreevy, P.
Title Equine Behavior A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists Type Book Whole
Year 2012 Publication Abbreviated Journal (down)
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Abstract Chapter 1 – Introduction, Pages 1-36

Chapter 2 – Perception, Pages 37-54

Chapter 3 – Behavior and the brain, Pages 55-84, Caroline Hahn

Chapter 4 – Learning, Pages 85-118

Chapter 5 – Social behavior, Pages 119-150

Chapter 6 – Communication, Pages 151-163

Chapter 7 – Locomotory behavior, Pages 165-187

Chapter 8 – Ingestive behavior, Pages 189-215

Chapter 9 – Eliminative behavior, Pages 217-221

Chapter 10 – Body care, Pages 223-243

Chapter 11 – Behavior of the stallion, Pages 245-264

Chapter 12 – Behavior of the mare, Pages 265-290

Chapter 13 – Training, Pages 291-311, Andrew McLean, Paul McGreevy

Chapter 14 – Handling and transport, Pages 313-329

Chapter 15 – Miscellaneous unwelcome behaviors, their causes and resolution, Pages 331-345

Further reading, Page 347

Glossary, Pages 351-356

Index, Pages 357-369
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6154
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Author Fenner, K.; Freire, R.; McLean, A.; McGreevy, P.
Title Behavioral, demographic and management influences on equine responses to negative reinforcement Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Veterinary Behavior Abbreviated Journal (down)
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Keywords Learning; horse management; training; temperament; negative reinforcement
Abstract Understanding the factors that influence horse learning is critical to ensure horse welfare and rider safety. In this study, data were obtained from horses (n=96) training to step backwards through a corridor in response to bit pressure. Following training, learning ability was determined by the latency to step backwards through the corridor when handled on the left and right reins. Additionally, horse owners were questioned about each horse's management, training, behavior and signalment (such as horse breed, age and sex). Factors from these four broad domains were examined using a multiple logistic regression (MLR) model, following an Information Theoretic approach, for associations between horses' behavioral attributes and their ability to learn the task. The MLR also included estimates of the rider's ability and experience as well as owner's perceptions of their horse's trainability and temperament. Results revealed several variables including explanatory variables that correlated significantly with rate of learning. Horses were faster at backing, a behavioral trait, when handled on the right (t = 3.65, df = 94, P < 0.001) than the left side. Thoroughbred horses were slower at completing the tests than other breeds of horses when handled on the left side (LM, F1,48=4.5, P=0.04) and right side (LM, F1,45=6.0, P=0.02). Those in regular work, a training factor, did not learn faster than their unworked counterparts on the right rein but completed the task faster on the left rein (F1,44=5.47, P=0.02). This may reflect differences in laterality and habituation effects. In contrast, more anxious horses were faster at completing the test when handled from the right (Spearman, r=-0.22, P=0.04). It is possible that these horses have an increased arousal level when interacting with handlers, resulting in more engagement with the lesson, accounting for the improved performance results. The findings of this study will help clarify how horse behavior, training and management may influence learning and how their application may optimize learning outcomes. Future equine behavior assessment and research questionnaires should include items that assess these qualities.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6400
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Author McGreevy, P.; Yeates, J.
Title Horses (Equus caballus) Type Book Chapter
Year 2018 Publication Companion Animal Care and Welfare Abbreviated Journal (down)
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Keywords animal company; behavioural signs; diseases; domestic horses; euthanasia; human interaction; nutritional requirements
Abstract Summary Domestic horses are equid members of the class Mammalia, order Perissodactyla, and family Equidae. Horses are obligate herbivores, with nutritional requirements as listed in a table. Adequate space is necessary for exercise, exploration, flight, sharing resources, play, and rolling. Company is essential for all horses, including stallions. Company provides opportunities for mutual grooming and play and allows horses to stand head-to-tail to remove flies. Unhandled horses may respond to humans as they would to predators, whereas handled horses' responses depend on their previous interactions with humans. Horses can suffer from several diseases as listed in another table. The best method of euthanasia of horses is usually sedation followed by either cranial shooting or the injection of an overdose of pentobarbitone into the jugular vein. Behavioural signs of distress can include increased locomotory activity, vigilance behaviours, neighing, snorting, pawing, nibbling walls and buckets, defaecation, rearing, kicking stable walls or doors, and high-stepping 'prancing'.
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Series Editor Series Title Wiley Online Books Abbreviated Series Title Companion Animal Care and Welfare
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 6506
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Author McGreevy, P.
Title Equine behavior Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Journal of Equine Veterinary Science Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 24 Issue 9 Pages 397-398
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Author Cooper, J.; McGreevy, P.
Title Stereotypic Behaviour in the Stabled Horse: Causes, Effects and Prevention without Compromising Horse Welfare Type Book Chapter
Year 2002 Publication The Welfare of Horses Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 99-124
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Abstract Apparently functionless, repetitive behaviour in horses, such as weaving or crib-biting has been difficult to explain for behavioural scientists, horse owners and veterinarians alike. Traditionally activities such as these have been classed amongst the broad descriptor of undesirable stable vices and treatment has centred on prevention of the behaviours per se rather than addressing their underlying causes. In contrast, welfare scientists have described such activities as apparently abnormal stereotypics, claiming they are indicative of poor welfare, citing negative emotions such as boredom, frustration or aversion in the stable environment and even suggesting prevention of the activities alone can lead to increased distress. Our understanding of equine stereotypics has advanced significantly in recent years with epidemiological, developmental and experimental studies identifying those factors closely associated with the performance of stereotypics in stabled horses. These have allowed the development of new treatments based on removing the causal factors, improving the horses“ social and nutritional environment, re-training of horses and their owners and redirection of the activities to less harmful forms. Repetitive activities conventionally seen as undesirable responses to the stable environment, their causal basis and the effectiveness of different approaches to treatment are discussed, both in terms of reducing the behaviour and improving the horse”s quality of life.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4379
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Author Waran, N.; McGreevy, P.; Casey, R.
Title Training Methods and Horse Welfare Type Book Chapter
Year 2002 Publication The Welfare of Horses Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 151-180
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Abstract Many aspects of horse care and handling are based upon convenience and traditional practices. Many of these methods of management and practice do not take into account the natural behaviour of horses. This is despite the belief that although domestic horses are probably more docile, stronger, faster growing and faster moving than their ancestors, they are unlikely to have lost any natural behaviours. The performance or sport horse is expected to perform a wide variety of movements and tasks, some of which are unnatural or exaggerated and most of which must be learned. The term “training” is commonly used to describe the processes whereby the human handler introduces the horse to new situations and associations. Performance horses are often required to tolerate stimuli that are innately aversive or threatening, such as having a person on their backs. They are also trained to respond to a stimulus with often unnatural or over-emphasised behaviour, such as some of the dressage movements. Effective and humane training requires an understanding of the processes underlying behaviour. These include knowledge of behaviour under natural conditions, learning processes, the influence of early experience and motivational forces. Horses differ from the other main companion animal species, namely cats and dogs, in that they are a prey species. They most commonly flee from dangerous and painful situations. Horses readily learn to avoid potentially threatening situations and if their attempts to avoid associated stimuli are prevented, they will often exhibit problem behaviours. In this chapter the history of horse training, the application of learning theory and a knowledge of equine behaviour to training, and innovative training methods are all considered.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4380
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Author McGreevy, P.D.
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Year 2004 Publication Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists Abbreviated Journal (down)
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Notes Cited By (since 1996): 25; Export Date: 21 October 2008 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4530
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Author McGreevy, P.D.; McLean, A.N.; Warren-Smith, A.K.; Waran, N.; Goodwin, D.
Title Defining the terms and processes associated with equitation Type Journal Article
Year 2005 Publication Proceedings of the First International Equitation Science Symposium Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume Issue Pages 10-43
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Notes Cited By (since 1996): 6; Export Date: 24 October 2008 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ knut @ Serial 4616
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Author Warren-Smith, A.K.; McGreevy, P.D.
Title Preliminary investigations into the ethological relevance of round-pen (round-yard) training of horses Type Journal Article
Year 2008 Publication Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science Abbreviated Journal (down)
Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 285-298
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Abstract Recently, training horses within round-pens has increased in popularity. Practitioners often maintain that the responses they elicit from horses are similar to signals used with senior conspecifics. To audit the responses of horses to conspecifics, 6 mare-young-horse dyads, this study introduced them to each other in a round-pen and videoed them for 8 min. These dyads spent significantly more time farther than 10 m apart than they did less than 1 m apart (p < .001). The time they spent less than 1 m apart decreased over the 8-min test period (p = .018). Mares occupied the center of the round-pen and chased youngsters for 0.73% of the test period (p < .001). Mares made all agonistic approaches (p < .001), and youngsters (p = .018) made all investigative approaches. Head lowering and licking-and-chewing were exhibited most when the youngsters were facing away from the mares (p < .001). The frequency of head lowering increased during the test period (p = .027), whereas the frequency of licking-and-chewing did not change. The results bring into question the popular interpretation and ethological relevance of equine responses commonly described in round-pen training and show that mares did not condition young horses to remain in close proximity to them.
Address Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Notes Cited By (since 1996): 1; Export Date: 13 November 2008; Source: Scopus Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4657
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