How Useful Are Existing Protocols in the Quick Assessment of the Welfare of Semi-Feral Horses? Pilot Study on Konik Polski Horses Living in the Forest Sanctuary [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Scientifically validated and standardised methods for the evaluation of the welfare of free-living horses are urgently needed by both the owners and managers of these populations and those responsible for implementing national welfare legislation.
Aleksandra Górecka-Bruzda +3 more
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Evaluation of Medetomidine-Ketamine for Immobilization of Feral Horses in Romania [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Feral horses are immobilized for a variety of reasons including population control via contraceptives. Although opioid combinations have been successfully used for immobilization of feral horses, there is a need for combinations using drugs that are more
Jon M Arnemo, Alina L Evans
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Preliminary Proof of the Concept of Wild (Feral) Horses Following Light Aircraft into a Trap [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Feral horses, wherever managed, typically require population control involving capture for permanent removal or repeatedly for fertility control treatments. The most common method for capturing feral horses is helicopter chasing into traps.
Sue McDonnell, Catherine Torcivia
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Behavioural synchronization in a multilevel society of feral horses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Behavioural synchrony among individuals is essential for group-living organisms. The functioning of synchronization in a multilevel society, which is a nested assemblage of multiple social levels between many individuals, remains largely unknown. The aim
Tamao Maeda +3 more
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Where Dinner Roams: The Role of Feral Horses as a Resource Subsidy for Wolves and Cougars in West‐Central British Columbia [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFeral horses (Equus ferus caballus) have established large populations in west‐central British Columbia (BC), Canada, where they overlap with native ungulates, including a declining woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) herd.
Shane C. White +3 more
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Reconstruction of the Major Maternal and Paternal Lineages in the Feral New Zealand Kaimanawa Horses
Animals, 2022 New Zealand has the fourth largest feral horse population in the world. The Kaimanawas (KHs) are feral horses descended from various domestic horse breeds released into the Kaimanawa ranges in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Elmira Mohandesan +2 more
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Nine-year seroepidemiological study of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus infection in feral horses in Cape Toi, Japan [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchSevere fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a fatal zoonosis caused by ticks in East Asia. As SFTS virus (SFTSV) is maintained between wildlife and ticks, seroepidemiological studies in wildlife are important to understand the behavior of SFTSV
Hirohisa Mekata +8 more
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Not playing by the rules: Unusual patterns in the epidemiology of parasites in a natural population of feral horses (Equus caballus) on Sable Island, Canada [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020 Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada hosts one of few natural populations of feral horses (Equus caballus) never exposed to anthelmintics. Coproculture revealed cyathostomes, Strongylus equinus, S. edentatus, and S. vulgaris, with S.
Emily Jenkins +13 more
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Runs of homozygosity in Sable Island feral horses reveal the genomic consequences of inbreeding and divergence from domestic breeds [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background Understanding inbreeding and its impact on fitness and evolutionary potential is fundamental to species conservation and agriculture. Long stretches of homozygous genotypes, known as runs of homozygosity (ROH), result from inbreeding and their
Julie Colpitts +2 more
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Nemabiome sequencing reveals seasonal and age associated patterns of strongyle infection and high prevalence of Strongylus vulgaris in Alberta feral horses [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeUnmanaged feral horses, naïve to dewormers, offer a unique opportunity to study natural communities of equine parasites. These communities may include parasites that are rare in managed populations, and these may be transmitted to domestic horses in ...
Grace Onyeche Ochigbo +4 more
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