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dc.contributor.authorBartošová, Jitka
dc.contributor.authorPluháček, Jan
dc.contributor.authorBartoš, Luděk
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-02T10:12:12Z
dc.date.available2021-06-02T10:12:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifierONIX_20210602_10.5772/intechopen.76580_438
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49324
dc.description.abstractFetal loss is a common phenomenon in domestic horses, being usually highest (up to 40%) of all domestic ungulates. However, in all studies investigating this problem, sociobiological approach, such as conflict between the evolutionary interests of individuals of the two sexes, has been neglected. Here we summarize results of three consecutive studies considering infanticide as a male’s reproductive strategy and a mare’s counter strategies against it. When a mare was either artificially inseminated or removed from her home environment and transported elsewhere for mating and then returned back into her home environment, containing a stallion (and/or gelding) who did not sire her fetus, she got into a potentially infanticidal danger. She more likely disrupted her pregnancy than a mare living in an environment with the sire of her fetus. This was highly affected by the social environment. Lowest percentage of pregnancy disruption can be achieved when the pregnant mare was released into an enclosure shared with the non-sire male whom she can “convince” he is the father of her expected foal by promiscuous mating. The effects of social environment leading to pregnancy block and/or disruption may thus explain substantial part of the high incidence of domestic horse fetal loss.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MF Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences::MFN Medical geneticsen_US
dc.subject.otherpregnancy disruption, domestic horse, Bruce effect
dc.titleChapter Behavioral Factors Affecting Reproduction in Domestic Horses: Sociobiological Approach
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.5772/intechopen.76580
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy09f6769d-48ed-467d-b150-4cf2680656a1
oapen.relation.isFundedByFP7-KBBE-2010-4
oapen.grant.number266213
oapen.grant.acronymWELFARE INDICATORS


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