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The "Behaviour of Horses in Relation to Management and Training" is a unique and important work, being a fascinating mixture of scientific fact and original thinking which will stimulate all horse owners to look more closely into patterns of behaviour resulting in a greatly improved understanding of equine species. It includes the following topics: feeding behaviour and digestion; how horses learn; behavioural problems; horse welfare; horse language; visual communication; sex, maturity and the foal; and horse society.
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Marthe Kiley-Worthington is an internationally renowned ethologist who has been researching the behaviour, welfare and training of horses for the last twenty-five years. Raised in Kenya, she completed her BSc in England, then returned to Africa to carry out wildlife research and establish a farm and stud. Returning to Britain again, she completed her doctorate on communication in hoofed animals, canines and felids in 1969 at the University of Sussex. The author lectures, demonstrates and teaches people throughout the world and runs an animal behaviour consultancy. She trains and rides high school, dressage, draught, liberty and international long-distance horses.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
If you care about your horse, then this is the book for you. This book is easy to read and looks into all aspects of horse management and training. Definately for the 'thinking' owner/rider - Why not try to make the world a better, more natural place to live, for all horses, if not for this generation, hopefully for the next generation. Danuta Lawson
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Interesting but very scientific book. Suitable for someone who is interested in highly scientific and technical explanations for behaviour. Not that useful if you are looking for a more practical and basic book about horse body language and communication.
In fairness it may be that the book was not well described.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Interesting but some bad science
11 Nov 2006
It really irritates me when people who have earned degrees write bad science. This is the second book of M K-W's I've read and she just doesn't understand operant conditioning at all, or if I am really kind I might say she describes it badly.
There are some very interesting and worthwhile sections in this book, but please skip over the chapter on learning and conditioning because the descriptions of negative and postive reinforcement and particularly how it applies to riding aids are either downright wrong or so very badly worded that it would give the uninformed reader the entirely wrong impression. The author also has a habit of blurring opinion and scientific research indescriminitely, which will be annoying to anyone else of a scientific or diagnostic mindset. It's also mildly amusing to find that throughout the text she refers to her own research papers as if she were a third party.
On the up side, the book is very readable and there are many references to research performed over the years and some very interesting theories and opinions. For first time property owners there is a nice chapter on property management for horses. None of the information is startling, new or different from many other texts (except that Ms Kiley prefers to use horses to perform many tasks that others might use mechanical devices for)but it is practical and describes the issues facing horse property owners well.
I think this book is probably most of interest to horse breeders and those who are interested in foal rearing and associated topics as there is a great deal of the book dedicated to breeding, mare and stallion behaviour and foal rearing.
I'd certainly recommend this as worth a read with the reservations mentioned already.
There are some very interesting and worthwhile sections in this book, but please skip over the chapter on learning and conditioning because the descriptions of negative and postive reinforcement and particularly how it applies to riding aids are either downright wrong or so very badly worded that it would give the uninformed reader the entirely wrong impression. The author also has a habit of blurring opinion and scientific research indescriminitely, which will be annoying to anyone else of a scientific or diagnostic mindset. It's also mildly amusing to find that throughout the text she refers to her own research papers as if she were a third party.
On the up side, the book is very readable and there are many references to research performed over the years and some very interesting theories and opinions. For first time property owners there is a nice chapter on property management for horses. None of the information is startling, new or different from many other texts (except that Ms Kiley prefers to use horses to perform many tasks that others might use mechanical devices for)but it is practical and describes the issues facing horse property owners well.
I think this book is probably most of interest to horse breeders and those who are interested in foal rearing and associated topics as there is a great deal of the book dedicated to breeding, mare and stallion behaviour and foal rearing.
I'd certainly recommend this as worth a read with the reservations mentioned already.
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