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Eye Blink Rates and Eyelid Twitches as a Non-Invasive Measure of Stress in the Domestic Horse

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Eye blink rate has been used as an indicator of stress in humans and, due to its non-invasive nature, could be useful to measure stress in horses. Horses exhibit both full and half blinks as well as eyelid twitches. We exposed 33 horses to stressful situations such as separation from...

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Autores principales: Merkies, Katrina, Ready, Chloe, Farkas, Leanne, Hodder, Abigail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443315
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9080562