The way to a man's heart is through his stomach: What about horses?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Sankey, Carol ^a   Henry, Séverine ^a   Górecka Bruzda, Aleksandra ^b   Richard Yris, Marie Annick ^a   Hausberger, Martine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; GROOMING; HORSE; IMMOBILIZATION; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; FOOD; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FOOD; HORSES; HUMANS; LEARNING; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; REWARD;

EID: 78649731904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015446     Document Type: Article

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