Journal articles for EV2915 Equine Health & Disease Assignment 1 - additional reading

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Assignment 1. Additional reading from Library resources:

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Social behaviour in stallion groups (Equus przewalskii and Equus caballus) kept under natural and domestic conditions • ARTICLE
Janne Winther Christensen, Tatjana Zharkikh, Jan Ladewig and Natalja Yasinetskaya
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Volume 76, Issue 1,Pages 11-20

(Full-text available via Library Electronic Databases or by email on request from dislib@ul.ie)

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Title: HEADSHAKING IN HORSES - AN AFTERWORD
Author(s): COOK WR
Source: COMPENDIUM ON CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR THE PRACTICING VETERINARIAN 14 (10): 1369-1371 OCT 1992
Document Type: Editorial Material
Language: English
Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 18
Abstract: Equine headshaking is a natural behavior pattern and part of the defense mechanism evolved to protect against attacks by biting flies. All horses exhibit the response, but annoyance provokes some horses quicker than others. A headshaker is a horse that exhibits sudden, intermittent, and apparently involuntary head nodding or tossing movements of an extravagant kind, generally during ridden exercise. Head tossing is not a disease but a sign (and not necessarily a sign of disease). Headshaking might reflect that the horse has a temperament that renders it unable to cope with the tiresome rigors of domestication in general and dressage in particular. Headshaking is an instinctive response to frustration. One way to cause headshaking is to separate certain horses from habitual companions in a nearby paddock or stable. The horse is exhibiting a perfectly normal response but an inconvenient one for the rider. Headshaking can be either a sign of distress caused by exercise-induced hypoxia or of irritation and impatience with the artificial conditions imposed by domestication.

(Abstract only available, fulltext on request from British Library, may take 5 days).