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SUBMITTER: Giles SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7659649 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giles Sarah L SL Harris Pat P Rands Sean A SA Nicol Christine J CJ
PeerJ 20201109
Individual animals experience different costs and benefits associated with group living, which may impact on their foraging efficiency in ways not yet well specified. This study investigated associations between social dominance, body condition and interruptions to foraging behaviour in a cross-sectional study of 116 domestic horses and ponies, kept in 20 discrete herds. Social dominance was measured for each individual alongside observations of winter foraging behaviour. During bouts of foragin ...[more]