Personality assessment of horses can be used to select suitable training and weaning methods, choose or breed horses for police work or therapeutic riding, investigate underlying reasons for the development of behavioural problems or assess how an unknown horse might react to new or aversive situations or stimuli. In our study with Lipizzan horses, we were interested in verifying the reliability of personality assessment methods by comparing questionnaires, personality descriptions following Tellington-Jones and Taylor anatomical recommendations, heart rate measurements and behavioural tests, namely two fear tests and a handling test. Thirty-five Lipizzan horses older than five years, ridden and healthy, were tested. In the global scale, we...
In many countries completing the performance test requirements is obligatory only for stallions, but...
An animal's welfare depends on an individual's capacity to adapt to the environment in which it liv...
Anecdotal evidence from horse owners and handlers suggests the existence of breed typical behaviour ...
Abstract We tested 35 Lipizzan horses older than 5 years, ridden and healthy in three behavioural te...
There are several potential applications for horse personality assessment, but first a reliable and ...
One of the important factors that significantly affects the intensity and content of training and de...
This study aimed to identify tests that include all the criteria necessary to characterise reliably ...
An animal’s welfare depends on an individual’s capacity to adapt to the environment in which it live...
The biological diversity of a species gives rise to individual differences in behavioural tendency. ...
The efficacy of questionnaire-based personality assessment has been shown in a variety of animal and...
Objective assessment of animal personality is typically time consuming, requiring the repeated measu...
An animal’s welfare depends on an individual’s capacity to adapt to the environment in which it live...
International audienceThe existence of individual variations in behaviour has been demonstrated in a...
Objective equine personality tests enable the selection of horses for roles based on their typical b...
International audienceAnimal personality, the result of temperament being modulated by life events, ...
In many countries completing the performance test requirements is obligatory only for stallions, but...
An animal's welfare depends on an individual's capacity to adapt to the environment in which it liv...
Anecdotal evidence from horse owners and handlers suggests the existence of breed typical behaviour ...
Abstract We tested 35 Lipizzan horses older than 5 years, ridden and healthy in three behavioural te...
There are several potential applications for horse personality assessment, but first a reliable and ...
One of the important factors that significantly affects the intensity and content of training and de...
This study aimed to identify tests that include all the criteria necessary to characterise reliably ...
An animal’s welfare depends on an individual’s capacity to adapt to the environment in which it live...
The biological diversity of a species gives rise to individual differences in behavioural tendency. ...
The efficacy of questionnaire-based personality assessment has been shown in a variety of animal and...
Objective assessment of animal personality is typically time consuming, requiring the repeated measu...
An animal’s welfare depends on an individual’s capacity to adapt to the environment in which it live...
International audienceThe existence of individual variations in behaviour has been demonstrated in a...
Objective equine personality tests enable the selection of horses for roles based on their typical b...
International audienceAnimal personality, the result of temperament being modulated by life events, ...
In many countries completing the performance test requirements is obligatory only for stallions, but...
An animal's welfare depends on an individual's capacity to adapt to the environment in which it liv...
Anecdotal evidence from horse owners and handlers suggests the existence of breed typical behaviour ...