Are Equine Personality Traits Heritable?
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
August 2, 2016
Researchers studied personality trends in draft horses, Warmbloods, and draft-Warmblood-crosses to find out.
Researchers studied personality trends in draft horses, Warmbloods, and draft-Warmblood-crosses to find out.
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Consider horses’ unique abilities and needs to carry out welfare-friendly, efficient training, one researcher says.
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French researchers found that the degree of that impairment depends on training method and the individual horse.
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A horse behavior expert weighs in on whether she believes horses benefit from toys.
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New research has revealed that horses do, in fact, try to intentionally communicate with us to achieve certain goals.
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