How reliable is temperament assessment in the domestic horse (Equus caballus)

By S. Seaman, H. Davidson, N. Waran. 2002

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Equine, Small Animals

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3. B. Forkman
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Citations in the corpus

• Horse personality: Variation between breeds (2008, unknown): “…assessment of individual differences through the use of behaviour tests (Le Scolan et al., 1997; Wolff et al., 1997; Visser et al., 2001, 2002, 2003a,b; Seaman et al., 2002) and through the use of ratings provided by handlers (Anderson et al., 1999; Creighton, 2003; Momozawa et al., 2003, 2005).”
• Evaluation of a novel method of horse personality assessment: Rater-agreement and links to behaviour (2007, background): “…and assessment of observed behaviour (Le Scolan et al., 1997; Wolff et al., 1997; Anderson et al., 1999; Visser et al., 2001, 2002, 2003; Seaman et al., 2002; McCall et al., 2006) or the completion of subjective questionnaires on the behaviour of individuals over a variety of situations…”
• A critical review of fear tests used on cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and horses. (2007, methodology): “The novel object test is sometimes performed after a habituation period to a barren open arena used in some case as a previous open-field test when different tests are combined [160 – 162].”
• Responses of horses to novel visual, olfactory and auditory stimuli (2005, result): “Previous studies of consistency of behavioural variables across test situations in horses have shown varying results (e.g. Scolan et al., 1997; Wolff et al., 1997; Visser et al., 2001; Seaman et al., 2002).”
• A review of the human-horse relationship (2008, methodology): “Information concerning visual contact is scarce; the experimenter seeks it (Seaman et al., 2002), avoid it (Seaman et al., 2002; Simpson, 2002) or literature is not informative on the fact.”
• A novel scale of behavioural indicators of stress for use with domestic horses (2012, background): “…with literature research (see Houpt, 181 1993; Winskill et al., 1996; McBride and Cuddeford, 2001; Strand et al., 2002; 182 Heleski et al., 2002; Seaman et al., 2002; McDonnell, 2003) 183 184 2.3.2 Analysis of behaviour carried out by a panel of equestrian professionals 185 A panel of 13…”