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Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists

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Don't let the academic title fool you - this is a very accessible, reader-friendly book. It is an enormous collection of information on horse behavior with extremely useful illustrations. It takes the reader through all aspects of equine behavior, from the aspects familiar to many owners and trainers, to the more subtle aspects that will undoubtably assist everyone who is seriously interested in working around or communing with horses.

I can't recommend this highly enough. Worth every penny of the textbook-over-the-top price (!) it is entertaining reading, and will prove a great and lasting addition to any serious horse person's library.

I bought another book on horse behavior and it has nothing to compare with this one. It is excellent, lots of content with different perspective. The author offers the horse's point of view of human management of their needs. Chapters are interesting, complete, the layout is firendly users, pics helps to understand. A must, as soon as you are seriously interested to understand equine behvior.

If you are at all intersted in horse behavior this is an excellent book to have. It is easy to read, but yet doesn't dumb down the information. Well worth the price.

I can not praise highly enough the contents and form of this textbook. "THE BOOK" on horse behaviour and educated (=humane) treatment of horses I was looking for. This is a well written book stating facts, information and data expertly and critically presented and explained. Evidence-based digested scientific information on horse behaviour, physiology and learning theory essential if you aim to be well informed. In particular, the cases presented, including the solutions with practical advice in an educated approach are invaluable, even if you do not have a similar problem, as I found the descriptions inspiring.
This was an interesting read for me, I enjoyed learning from this book and definitely intend to refer to it for the benefit of improving my approach to my pet. I have also recommened the book to people who work or own horses.

You cannot get a better or cheaper education on equine behavior than reading this book. You could read all the other equine behavior books ever written and watch all the horsemanship dvds ever made and they will all will be lame and a waste of money as compared to the information contained in this one book. You don't need the expensive multi-level horsemanship dvd programs of the Aussie and American cowboy/horse whisperers or the English/European snob horse-people gurus. All the whisperer and guru folklore, mysticsm and psychobabble that pretends to understand horses is exposed as nonsense by this book. Just forget everything you have read, heard or dreamed-up about horses from all those money grubbing whisperers and gurus, know-it-all neighbors, local experts and family and read this one science based book on equine behavior.