A note on resting behaviour in horses kept on pasture: Rolling prior to getting up

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 105, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 265-269

  Hansen, M N ^a   Estvan, J ^a   Ladewig, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Comfort behaviour; Horses; Recumbency; Resting behaviour; Rising behaviour; Rolling behaviour

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; HORSE; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; PASTURE;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34247522418     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.032     Document Type: Article

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