AN SC378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Massage, Flehmen Response, Binocular Vision

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Animal Science
• Course: AN SC378
• Professor: Clover Bench

Document Summary

We tend to use the fereal version of the mustang as our wild type. Only because the przewalski almost went extinct and the only ones available are from a gene pool of. Even when eating they are paying attention to their surroundings. They rely on (cid:272)aution (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they don"t have horns or antlers. They use speed and agility as its means for self-preservation. Horses spend majority of the day standing and developed the minimalist amount of effort to sleep while standing. If you restrict the movement you affect other habits. Binocular vision= 60-70 (this is worse than dog and cat) Yellow is identified the easiest, then green then blue then reds. They are better than humans at discriminating between shades of grey. Have good night vision (not as good as cats) 10 muscles help ears move in lateral arc. Zones of cutaneous (skin) sensation that can reduce their heart rate if you do a deep tissue massage.