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Domestication of the horse

EVOLUTION & DOMESTICATION

discover the principles and methods of domestication;
know where and when horses were domesticated;
learn more about the origin of different breed types;
understand how domestic horses spread around the world; and
find out why some aspects of domestication still remain a mystery.

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Evolution of the horse

EVOLUTION & DOMESTICATION

understand evolution works;
know what happened in the past 65 million years of horse evolution;
discover what the drivers of horse evolution were;
find out which equid species are still around today; and
learn how evolutionary processes can be reconstructed.

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Equine Behaviour

BEHAVIOUR & HANDLING

learn more about the social structure of a herd;
find out how horses living in the wild divide their time between feeding, exercising and resting;
discover how horses communicate with each other;
understand the specific behaviours such as mating behaviour or social grooming; and
know how horses interact with their human handlers.

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How horses learn

BEHAVIOUR & HANDLING

learn why horses behave the way they do;
be aware of the important differences between a horse’s and a human’s sensory perception and how this will affect the way a horse behaves;
find out how to communicate with a horse in a way that it understands;
know the differences between associative and non-associative learning;
understand how the different types of learning can be used when training horses; and
why character and previous experience can make every horse a little different.

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Colours of the horse

EQUINE IDENTIFICATION

learn how the hairs of the coat get their colour;
know the basic colours of the horse;
find out more about the many possible variations of the basic colours; and
understand the basic genetics behind the inheritance of colour.

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