
Equine Behavior
A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists
Description
Key Features
- Features a practical, hands-on approach to all aspects of equine behavior
- Discusses all factors that effect equine behavior
- Contrasts normal behavior with abnormal behavior
- Reviews all behavioral problems
- Lists and reviews the latest drug therapies
- Addresses difficult-to-treat clinical problems such as head-shaking, with insights from the leading researcher in this area
- Provides a brief clinical evaluation of 'horse-whispering'
- Illustrates the key behavioral differences between horses and donkeys
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Perception
3. Behavior and the brain
4. Learning
5. Social behavior
6. Communication
7. Locomotory behavior
8. Ingestive behavior
9. Eliminative behavior
10. Body care
11. Behavior of the stallion
12. Behavior of the mare
13. Equitation Science
14. Handling and transport
15. Miscellaneous unwelcome behaviors, their causes and resolution
Further reading
Glossary of colloquialisms, ethological and equestrian terms
Product details
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Saunders Ltd. 2012
- Published: September 7, 2012
- Imprint: Saunders Ltd.
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780702043376
- eBook ISBN: 9780702052927