Social relationships in a group of horses without a mature stallion

Behaviour

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 783-804

  Sigurjónsdóttir, Hrefna ^a   Van Dierendonck, Machteld C ^b   Snorrason, Sigurdur ^a   Thórhallsdóttir, Anna G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b FIRE Consultancy ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Iceland   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Dominance hierarchies; Icelandic horses; Kinship; Social relationships; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 18344403133     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853903322370670     Document Type: Article

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