Behavioral Factors Affecting Reproduction in Domestic Horses: Sociobiological Approac
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<a href="https://www.intechopen.com/books/animal-genetics-approaches-and-limitations/behavioral-factors-affecting-reproduction-in-domestic-horses-sociobiological-approach" target="_blank" >https://www.intechopen.com/books/animal-genetics-approaches-and-limitations/behavioral-factors-affecting-reproduction-in-domestic-horses-sociobiological-approach</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.76580" target="_blank" >10.5772/intechopen.76580</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Behavioral Factors Affecting Reproduction in Domestic Horses: Sociobiological Approac
Original language description
Fetal loss is a common phenomenon in domestic horses, being usually highest (up to 40%) of all domestic ungulates. However, in all studies investigating this problem, sociobiological approach, such as conflict between the evolutionary interests of individuals of the two sexes, has been neglected. Here we summarize results of three consecutive studies considering infanticide as a male’s reproductive strategy and a mare’s counter strategies against it. When a mare was either artificially inseminated or removed from her home environment and transported elsewhere for mating and then returned back into her home environment, containing a stallion (and/or gelding) who did not sire her fetus, she got into a potentially infanticidal danger. She more likely disrupted her pregnancy than a mare living in an environment with the sire of her fetus. This was highly affected by the social environment. Lowest percentage of pregnancy disruption can be achieved when the pregnant mare was released into an enclosure shared with the non-sire male whom she can “convince” he is the father of her expected foal by promiscuous mating. The effects of social environment leading to pregnancy block and/or disruption may thus explain substantial part of the high incidence of domestic horse fetal loss.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10614 - Behavioral sciences biology
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Animal Genetics - Approaches and Limitations
ISBN
978-1-78985-375-9
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
27-45
Number of pages of the book
90
Publisher name
IntechOpen
Place of publication
London
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