Domestic horses (Equus caballus) prefer to approach humans displaying a submissive body posture rather than a dominant body posture

Signals of dominance and submissiveness are central to conspecific communication in many species. For domestic animals, sensitivities to these signals in humans may also be beneficial. We presented domestic horses with a free choice between two unfamiliar humans, one adopting a submissive and the ot...

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Autores principales: Smith, Amy Victoria, Wilson, Clara, McComb, Karen, Proops, Leanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5818628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29030725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-017-1140-4

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