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Heart rate and behavioural correlates of anxiety assessment in horses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

J.N. Marchant
Affiliation:
Animal Behaviour, Cognition and Welfare Group, De Montfort University, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Caythorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3EP, UK
D.S. Mills
Affiliation:
Animal Behaviour, Cognition and Welfare Group, De Montfort University, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Caythorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3EP, UK
E. Schofield
Affiliation:
Animal Behaviour, Cognition and Welfare Group, De Montfort University, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Caythorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3EP, UK
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Extract

The aims of this study were to determine behavioural and heart rate responses to isolation and a novel stimulus and to investigate the relationships with scores from a questionnaire developed to assess anxiety in horses.

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Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2001

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