The nature of horses : exploring equine evolution, intelligence, and behavior / Stephen Budiansky.
The nature of horses : exploring equine evolution, intelligence, and behavior / Stephen Budiansky.
The nature of horses : exploring equine evolution, intelligence, and behavior / Stephen Budiansky.
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New York : Free Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N636.1/154
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English
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xiii, 290 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Franklin M. Loew -- Ch. 1. The Improbability of the Horse -- Ch. 2. From the Brink of Oblivion -- Ch. 3. Equine Nature, Human Nature -- Ch. 4. Socioecology -- Ch. 6. Seeing and Perceiving -- Ch. 6. Horse Talk -- Ch. 7. Horse Sense -- Ch. 8. The Mechanics of Movement -- Ch. 9. Assume a Sph...
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New York : Free Press, 1997.
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New York (State)
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1997.
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Horses have a shared history with man going back millennia to their domestication around 4000 B.C. Yet only in very recent years have scientists begun to turn the tools of modern science on this remarkable animal that has been so wrapped up in human dreams and legends. Now modern scientific research is beginning to explain long-standing mysteries a...
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The nature of horses : exploring equine evolution, intelligence, and behavior / Stephen Budiansky.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-272) and index.
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N636.1/154
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0684827689
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636.1
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991005085859702626
