The correlation between some physiological and anatomical parameters and personality in Lipizzan horsesDebeljak, Nataša (Avtor) Zupan, Manja (Mentor) Altimiras, Jordi (Komentor) horsespersonalityphysiological parametersanatomical parameterscorrelationmethodsPersonality assessment of horses can be used to select suitable training and weaning methods, choose or breed horses for police work or therapeutic riding, investigate underlying reasons for the development of behavioural problems or assess how an unknown horse might react to new or aversive situations or stimuli. In our study with Lipizzan horses, we were interested in verifying the reliability of personality assessment methods by comparing questionnaires, personality descriptions following Tellington-Jones and Taylor anatomical recommendations, heart rate measurements and behavioural tests, namely two fear tests and a handling test. Thirty-five Lipizzan horses older than five years, ridden and healthy, were tested. In the global scale, we were the first to conduct a study by utilizing a battery of methods to investigate the personality of Lipizanner horses and found a clear connection between behaviour, heart rate and anatomical characteristics (head and body) of horses. After a statistical analysis, our main results showed four different modes of responses to fear and learning situations in horses. None of the four modes correlated with the results of the head and body anatomy described by Tellington-Jones and Taylor nor the questionnaire. However, we found that some individual anatomical measurements of the horse’s body (measured with the sartorial meter or program) could be indicative of the behavioural and heart rate responses in behavioural tests. Consequently, we suggest that anatomical characteristics in Lipizzan horses provide us with a reliable and an objective, or at least less subjective measure to define personality traits such as exploration/fearfulness and intelligence (related to trainability).20182018-07-05 07:45:02Magistrsko delo/naloga101776VisID: 151435COBISS_ID: 4106632sl