Jeannine Berger's research while affiliated with University of California, San Francisco and other places

Publications (3)

Article
Determining the reasons for pain in ridden horses is challenging, because of the many variable factors, including primary musculoskeletal pain, tack-induced pain, or rider-induced pain. Field-based studies clearly have limitations. Assuming that those limitations are acknowledged, behavioral observations that are repeatable among horses, and that s...
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There is evidence that more than 47% of the sports horse population in normal work may be lame, but the lameness is not recognized by owners or trainers. An alternative means of detecting pain may be recognition of behavioral changes in ridden horses. It has been demonstrated that there are differences in facial expressions in nonlame and lame hors...

Citations

... Preliminary investigation of ridden horse behaviour evaluated facial expressions Dyson et al. 2017Dyson et al. , 2018c, because facial expressions had been proven to be important in pain recognition in the horse (Dalla Costa et al. 2014Gleerup et al. 2015;Van Loon and Van Dierendonck 2015) and other species (Cheung and Choi 2008;Langford et al. 2010;Ahola Kohut et al. 2012;Descovich et al. 2017). It was demonstrated that lame and non-lame horses could be differentiated by evaluation of facial expressions alone . ...
... Ears back during transitions(Dyson et al., 2018;Fureix et al., 2010) Stereotypy (AWIN, 2015; Lesimple, 2020) Rearing (Dyson et al., 2018; McLean & Christensen, 2017) Undesirable behavior (handling) (AWIN, 2015)Rushing(Dyson et al., 2018) Saddle slip(Greve & Dyson, 2014; König v. Borstel et al., 2017) Spooking(Dyson et al., 2018; ...