Social relationships in a herd of Sorraia horses. Part I. Correlates of social dominance and contexts of aggression

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 170-177

  Heitor, Filipa ^a   Oom, Maria do Mar ^a   Vicente, Luís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Agonistic interaction; Dominance; Equus; Horse; Rank

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DOMINANCE; HORSE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HERD; HORSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STALLION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HORSES; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33747344788     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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