Horse
Behaviour Explained
- origins, treatment and prevention of problems
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Hardcover,
224 pages
234 x 156 mm page size
151 colour and b/w illustrations
ISBN: 978-1-84076-037-8
Price £26.95
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Margit H. Zeitler-Feicht
Munich University, Germany.
A general guide to understanding horse behaviour, how the horse learns
and how horse handlers can adjust their behaviour to avoid creating
anxiety in the horse. The author begins by providing an overview of
the evolution of the horse and the consequences of domestication.
She goes on to provide a very detailed description of normal equine
behaviour and its impact on husbandry and training. This is followed
by the causes of abnormal and undesirable behaviour in the stable,
handling and when being ridden. The author links difficulties arising
from the management of horses today with the natural behaviour of
the horse and recommends therapeutic, as well as training, methods
for horses exhibiting behavioural problems.
The central theme of this book is prevention or cure of undesirable
behaviour through understanding making this book useful to anyone
who routinely works with horses, and is concerned with equine well
being.
Contents: Table of contents, Preface, Foreword. Part A: The
horse’s adaptability to the environment. 1. Evolution, 2. Domestication,
3. Ontogenesis, 4. Limitations of behavioural adaptability. Part B:
Inborn behavioural patterns – implications for management and handling.
1. Daily routine of free-roaming horses, 2. Social behaviour, 3. Breeding
behaviour, 4. Mare-foal behaviour, 5. Eating behaviour, 6. Drinking
behaviour, 7. Resting behaviour, 8. Locomotion behaviour, 9. Excretion
and marking behaviour, 10. Comfort behaviour, 11. Playing behaviour,
12. Curiosity and exploration behaviour. Part C: Causes, diagnosis,
therapy and prevention of problem behaviour. 1. Behavioural aberration
or unwanted behaviour?, 2. Classification of behavioural abnormalities,
3. Causes and triggers of problem behaviour, 4. Diagnosis of problem
behaviour, 5. Basics of handling and learning psychology, 6. Therapy
and prevention of problem behaviour. Part D: Problem behaviour in
the stable. 1. Feeding behaviour, 2. Locomotion behaviour, 3. Social
behaviour. 4. Comfort behaviour, 5. Resting behaviour. Part E: Problem
behaviour during handling and use. 1. Unwanted behaviour during handling,
2. Unwanted behaviour during use. Glossary, References, Index.
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"....the
photographs and line drawings are of very high quality quality and are
used very effectively......a useful and user-friendly text."
Irish Veternary Journal
" This
book is a welcome combination of the scientific and the practical.....it
would be hard to think of a behavioural problem which cannot be found
in this book."
Equine Behaviour Forum
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