Many sport horses live solitary, with no physical contact to other horses allowed for years, for
many different reasons including limiting risk of injuries caused by other horses. Other …

In recent decades, the integration of horses (Equus ferus) in European rewilding initiatives
has gained widespread popularity due to their potential for regulating vegetation and …

Gregarious animals living in permanent social groups experience intra-group competition.
Conflicts over resources can escalate into costly aggression and, in some conditions, non …

Social learning is said to meet the demands of complex environments in which individuals
compete over resources and cooperate to share resources. Horses (Equus caballus) were …

The urgent need to preserve ecosystems over vast areas has placed rewilding with wild
herbivores to the forefront. However, there are still few scientific experimental field studies …

The aim of our study was to explore the association between dominance rank and body
condition in outdoor group-living domestic horses, Equus caballus. Social interactions were …

This paper describes the development and pilot-testing of a horse welfare assessment
protocol (HWAP). The HWAP consists of the collective measurement of numerous factors …

Earlier research indicates that stallions may supress interactions of their harem members,
leading to less stable hierarchies and friendship bonds in harems compared to non-stallion …

Individual animals vary in their behaviour and reactions to novel situations. These
differences may extend to differences in cognition among individuals. We tested twenty-six …

The aim of this study was to explore whether the size of paddocks affected social
interactions within a group of horses. Furthermore, the effects of the gender composition in …