Quantifying aspects of young horses' temperament: consistency of behavioural variables

By E. Visser, C. van Reenen, H. Hopster, M. Schilder, J. Knaap, A. Barneveld, H. Blokhuis. 2001

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Equine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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Consistency of personality traits in dogs (2005, background): “For example, Visser et al. (2001) found shorter approach latency in horses, Equus caballus, in novel object tests, and longer duration of exploration.”
A comparison of behaviour in test and in everyday life: evidence of three consistent boldness-related personality traits in dogs (2005, result): “According to previous results in studies on long-term consistency in animals, correlations of behavioural traits over time (1‐2 years) rarely exceed 0.45 (Goddard and Beilharz, 1986; Carlstead et al., 1999; Lowe and Bradshaw, 2001; Visser et al., 2001 ).”
A critical review of fear tests used on cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and horses. (2007, methodology): “Studies have used no interval [164] or at very different time intervals, from 9 days [160] to 1 month up to 1 year [165,166].”
Personalities in great tits, Parus major : stability and consistency (2005, background): “…the results have given conflicting evidence and whether individual differences in behavioural strategies are context specific or domain general is controversial (e.g. Spoolder et al. 1996; D’Eath & Burn 2002; but see Dickson et al. 1970; Hessing et al. 1993; Réale et al. 2000; Visser et al. 2001).”
Assessing the human-animal relationship in farmed species: a critical review (2006, background): “Furthermore, responsiveness to humans has often been included as just one of a battery of ‘personality’ tests, such as social motivation or neophobia, without always balancing the test order (e.g., Romeyer and Bouissou, 1992; Vierin and Bouissou, 2002; Visser et al., 2001, 2002).”
A review of the human-horse relationship (2008, background): “Sex was not a major factor in determining temperament, and in particular did not influence the responses to the bridge test (Hausberger et al. 2004b; Visser et al., 2001, 2002) a novel object test and a learning test (Visser et al. 2001, 2002, 2003a).”
Evaluation of a novel method of horse personality assessment: Rater-agreement and links to behaviour (2007, background): “…involves either the classification 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…”