Assessment of equine temperament by a questionnaire survey to caretakers and evaluation of its reliability by simultaneous behavior test

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-138

  Momozawa, Yukihide ^a   Ono, Tomoko ^b   Sato, Fumio ^c   Kikusui, Takefumi ^a   Takeuchi, Yukari ^a   Mori, Yuji ^a   Kusunose, Ryo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EQUINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Heart rate; Horse; Questionnaire; Temperament

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC SPECIES;

ARENA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0242307188     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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