A note on the time budget and social behaviour of densely housed horses
| Autor: | Faouzia Charfi, Mohammed Ezzaouia, Marie-Annick Richard-Yris, Martine Hausberger, Haïfa Benhajali, Marine Leroux |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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040301 veterinary sciences
medicine.medical_treatment 05 social sciences Animal-assisted therapy 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Social behaviour Biology 0403 veterinary science Stocking Animal science Food Animals Animal welfare Herd medicine Social grooming Agonistic behaviour HUBzero 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal Science and Zoology 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology |
| Zdroj: | Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 112:196-200 |
| ISSN: | 0168-1591 |
| Popis: | We observed a high-density herd (200 mares/ha) of 44 Arab breeding mares, while in a bare paddock in Tunisia. Twenty-minute animal focal samples and scan sampling were used to determine the time budget of the mares during the period from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and study their social behaviour. The data obtained reveal restricted behavioural repertoires with missing behaviour like rolling, allogrooming and lying down; unusual time budgets with a high frequency of locomotion that constitutes the most frequent activity (27.9 ± 19.47%) of the mares. Social interactions were restricted to agonistic interactions but despite the high stocking density, aggressions were not that frequent among mares. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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