ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020
The Contribution of Mutual Grooming to Affiliative Relationships in a Feral Misaki Horse Herd.
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- Neural mechanisms of comforting: Prosocial touch and stress buffering.Hormones and behavior · 2023Review
- Equine Social Behaviour: Love, War and Tolerance.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- The Social and Reproductive Challenges Faced by Free-Roaming Horse (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Tend and Befriend in Horses: Partner Preferences, Lateralization, and Contextualization of Allogrooming in Two Socially Stable Herds of Quarter Horse Mares.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Behavioural and Physiological Changes in a Herd of Arabian Mares after the Separation of Individuals Differently Ranked within the Dominance Hierarchy.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although herd size, structure, stability, and social rank among Misaki feral horses have been reported, no studies have been conducted on the affiliative relationships and interactions among members in a Misaki horse herd. The validity of three hypotheses regarding the function of social grooming, the affiliative relationship strengthening hypothesis, the worsened relationship restoring hypothesis, and the grooming parasite removal hypothesis, were tested in a Misaki feral horse (
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