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Horsetalk.co.nz You’re on Candid Camera: Wilderness camera traps used to explore wild horse welfare
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One of the many wild horse images captured in the Australian study. Photo: Harvey et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11072101
Researchers have successfully used photographs and videos collected from camera traps to make welfare assessments of free-roaming wild horses.
The researchers were able to identify a majority of the horses captured by the cameras, having applied a previously developed protocol for scientifically assessing the welfare of each animal.
“Camera trapping was successful in detecting and identifying horses across a range of habitats, including woodlands where horses could not be directly observed,” Andrea Harvey and her fellow researchers reported in the journal
Horsetalk.co.nz Genetic testing casts light on maternal lines in the Holsteiner horse
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Results indicate that the 75 Holsteiner maternal lineages covered in the study developed from at least eight ancestral founder mares.
Genetic testing reveals that the current breeding population of Holsteiner horses originated from at least eight ancestral founder mares.
The Holsteiner horse, which originated in the marshlands of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany, is one of the most popular horse breeds, and is especially known for its showjumping ability.
The maternal lineages receive special attention and are considered important for the breed’s success.
The documentation of maternal lines had already started in the early 1800s. At that time, each mare with unknown parents was defined as a founder mare for a new lineage.
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Horsetalk.co.nz West Nile Virus surveillance protocols needed for African equids, say scientists
Working horses on the road to the Simien Mountains National Park in Ethiopia. Photo by A.Davey
A high seroprevalence of West Nile Virus among equids in some regions of Africa shows that a workable regional or sub-regional surveillance protocol is required, according to researchers.
Olaolu Olufemi, Marta Barba and Janet Daly, in a review published in the journal
Pathogens, said their work highlighted the scarcity of seroprevalence studies among African equids for the virus.
West Nile Virus was first identified in Africa and is endemic. It is transmitted between birds by biting mosquitoes, with equids and humans being incidental hosts.