Comments on: Do Horse Herds Really Have a Leader?

By: Horses Need An Education, Not A Leader – Little Pieces Of Me

Horses Need An Education, Not A Leader – Little Pieces Of Me — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:25:44 +0000

[…] “friends” are the most likely to be followed and it has nothing do with hierarchy. Another suggested that herd behaviors is are a group decision and does not rest with one solitary […]

By: joe

joe — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:37:05 +0000

By: pKL

pKL — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 05:23:32 +0000

I know a mare will have her grown offsprings, if this in the herd, with her long after those mares have their own babies, they run together as a family, or a little herd within a bigger herd.

By: t

Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:02:29 +0000

By: Kay

Kay — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:14:22 +0000

great info

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:51:24 +0000

I’m not fond of the “dominance” concept. Horses generally live in family groups or bachelor bands. This research is great. It would be very interesting to repeat in a Bachelor band. It’s actually well known in group animals that there are often several animals involved in different processes. Broom and Fraser define a leader, an intitiator and a controller. I think you’d be very interested in reading that Leslie (4th edition -Animal Behaviour and Welfare p. 127). Theres a fifth edition too; I havent checked if its in that yet (most likely). Thanks for sharing this. I’d somehow missed it. Valerie Jonckheer-Sheehy. European Veterinary Behaviour Specialist http://www.animalytics.nl