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Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses: Recognition and Application

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Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses: Recognition and Application helps you interpret and connect the physical signals that horses display in response to their environment. These signals are evident in the everyday actions, gestures and attitudes that horses communicate to each other, but are often so subtle that they can go unnoticed by humans. This ebook aims to rectify that, offering horse lovers and equine professionals an opportunity to gain a unique insight into their ‘horse’s world’..

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Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses: Recognition and Application helps you interpret and connect the physical signals that horses display in response to their environment. These signals are evident in the everyday actions, gestures and attitudes that horses communicate to each other, but are often so subtle that they can go unnoticed by humans. This ebook aims to rectify that, offering horse lovers and equine professionals an opportunity to gain a unique insight into their ‘horse’s world’. After reading this resource, you will be more astute in spotting calming signals, displacement activities, stress signals and distance-increasing signals, and better able to see which stimuli your horse can handle and which he cannot. This means you will know what to do to calm your horse before his stress rises to an unmanageable level. Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses is both fascinating and important reading for any equine veterinary practitioner, student or nurse, as well as horse owners and trainers. 199 p.

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • Rachaël Draaisma. Behaviour Consultant and Trainer, Lecturer. Milsbeek (the Netherlands).
  • Publication date (digital version): 2017-08 – CRC Press (imprint of Taylor & Francis Group).

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21 April 2018

Excellent book documenting the nuances of non-verbal communication between horses and between horses & humans.

There is more to be done in this field to affirm anecdote collected by horse owners & handlers, and to dispel the many misconceptions humans interpretations have created.

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