Movement initiation in groups of feral horses

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-101

  Krueger, Konstanze ^a   Flauger, Birgit ^a,d   Farmer, Kate ^b   Hemelrijk, Charlotte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Departure; Distributed leadership; Equus ferus caballus; Herding; Horse; Rank

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMINANCE; FERAL ORGANISM; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HORSE; MOVEMENT; RANKING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC HORSE; FEMALE; FERAL HORSE; GRAZING; GROUP STRUCTURE; HERD; HORSE; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MARE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIAL STATUS; SPATIAL POSITION; YEARLING;

DEPARTURE; DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP; EQUUS FERUS CABALLUS; HERDING; HORSE; RANK;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FEMALE; GROOMING; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HORSES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84890815209     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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