Stability over situations in temperamental traits of horses as revealed by experimental and scoring approaches

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-266

  Le Scolan, Nathalie ^a   Hausberger, Martine ^a   Wolff, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioural tests; Horse; Ratings; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORSE; LEARNING; NERVOUSNESS; NONHUMAN; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALIA; ARENA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0030725844     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00052-1     Document Type: Article

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