The welfare of horses involved in sport and leisure activities has come under increasing
scrutiny, both from within the equine sector and from the public. A systematic review of …

To date, the suitability of affiliative behaviours for inclusion in a horse welfare assessment
protocol has not been thoroughly studied. This is surprising, given the growing focus on …

Simple Summary As concerns over animal welfare grow, individuals working in animal
husbandry need easier ways to assess the psychological wellbeing of livestock. Recent …

Sociopositive interactions with conspecifics are essential for equine welfare and quality of
life. This study aimed to validate the use of wearable ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to …

Domesticated horses are often housed in individual stables for long periods where physical
contact with conspecifics is not possible. Although common, this form of stable design is …

This research applies unsupervised learning on a large original dataset of horses in the wild
to identify previously unidentified horse emotions. We construct a novel, high-quality, diverse …

The defining characteristic of laterality is the dominance of one side of the brain controlling
specific functions of paired organs or on one side of the body. Structural and functional …

Organisations for which sentient animals are central to the business model need to
demonstrate the safeguarding of animal welfare and well-being. This requires providing …

Horses commonly engage in physical contact with their conspecifics through mutual
grooming, which serves several important functions for social communication and comfort …

I think my horse knows the sound of my aging diesel car. She seems genuinely pleased to
see me, and on rare occasions has offered a soft nicker at my arrival–a gesture guaranteed …