Assessment of equine temperament by a questionnaire survey to caretakers and evaluation of its reliability by simultaneous behavior test

By Y. Momozawa, T. Ono, F. Sato, Takefumi Kikusui, Y. Takeuchi, Y. Mori, R. Kusunose. 2003

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Equine, Genetics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. H. L. I. Bornett-Gauci
2. J. E. Martin
3. Adele Sian Lloyd
4. R. Wilkinson
5. L. Keeling

In Genetics

1. H. L. I. Bornett-Gauci
2. J. E. Martin
3. B. Forkman
4. Adele Sian Lloyd
5. R. Wilkinson
6. K. Svartberg

Citations in the corpus

• Responses of horses to novel visual, olfactory and auditory stimuli (2005, result): “This is in contrast to previous studies of novelty responses in horses, which have included exposure to a combination of novelty and suddenness (e.g. Visser et al., 2001, 2002; Momozawa et al., 2003).”
• Evaluation of a novel method of horse personality assessment: Rater-agreement and links to behaviour (2007, methodology): “…by all six components is comparable to that found in other animal personality studies (King and Figueredo, 1997, 72.4%; Gosling, 1998, 75%; Momozawa et al., 2003, 84%; Momozawa et al., 2005, 71.4% and 75.5%; Martin, 2005, 78%), and is higher than that found in others (Stevenson-Hinde and…”
• Horse personality: Variation between breeds (2008, background): “…a safe horse to be with cStubborn Does not give in easily, not very cooperative cIntelligent Learns new things easily/fast benefits from mental stimulation a Adapted from Stevenson-Hinde et al. (1980). b Adjectives derived from Morris et al. (2002). c Adjectives derived from behavioural terms.”
• A review of the human-horse relationship (2008, background): “Finally, some studies focus on evaluations of personality inspired by researchers in the psychometric field (Mills, 1998; Morris et al., 2002; Momozawa et al., 2003, 2005), amongst which assessments of the horse’s tendency to be “affectionate”, “confident” (Mills, 1998) or show “agreeableness,…”
• A critical review of fear tests used on cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry and horses. (2007, background): “A positive correlation was found between reactivity to novel object, questionnaire about horse temperament and hr frequency during the test [163].”