Do horses generalise between objects during habituation?

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 509-520

  Christensen, Janne Winther ^a   Zharkikh, Tatjana ^b   Ladewig, Jan ^c  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b Biosphere Reserve Askania Nova   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fear; Habituation; Horse; Stimulus generalisation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FEEDING MECHANISM; HABITUATION; HORSE;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 53149137069     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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