Horses do not exhibit motor bias when their balance is challenged

Animal

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1645-1650

  Wells, A E D ^a   Blache, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambidextrous; Horse; Lateralisation; Riding; Training

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

EID: 54349110639     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731108002772     Document Type: Article

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