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Lauren Fraser

@lauren-fraser.bsky.social
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•Clinical animal behaviourist (MSc) for 🐴 •Not Another Dog & Pony Show podcast host •Bullet point lover •Educator 🐴🧪 But mostly, just a complex cascade of random events. linktr.ee/horsebehaviour

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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🧪 Signs of pain in horses are observable. Could AI systems enhance or replace human observations of horses experiencing pain? Revent research by Lencioni et al demonstrated that their system could classify between pain/no pain with overal accuracy of 88.3% journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Pain assessment in horses using automatic facial expression recognition through deep learning-based modeling
The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a machine vision algorithm to assess the pain level in horses, using an automatic computational classifier based on the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) and ...
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The precision with which kick threats can be sent - and received - without injury is 👩‍🍳💋
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🧪A field study looking at health issues of managed 🐴 found those housed in open barn groups showed fewer incidences of colic & lameness than stalled, solo🐴. While open barn 🐴 had ⬆️ incidence of open wounds, they were minor enough to not interfere with the 🐴’s work. scholar.google.ca/scholar?star...
The horizontally orientated image has been taken at ground level. In the background is a beautiful blue sky with white puffy clouds, and snow capped, treed mountains. In the foreground a Palomino horse lays flat on the ground, his four feet pointing towards the camera. Behind the Palomino, three additional horses can be seen: peeking out from behind the palomino’s shoulder can be seen the top of the head of a white horse, also laying down; a dark brown horse lays in sternal recumbency; a chestnut horse stands guard over the sleeping horses. The horses appear to be in a sandy paddock, and a wooden fence is in the distance behind the horses. The image conjure up feelings of comfortable and natural living for horses.
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Onaqui Catalogue Foundation @onaqui.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Welcome to Trail Cam Tuesdays! Camera ID: Conway Location: Onaqui South Herd Area January 2025 The Onaqui Catalogue uses carefully placed cameras to catch horses day or night, allowing us to see which horses are staying together even when we can’t access them. #onaquicatalogue
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🧪Test to determine the ‘tameness’ of 🐴s prior to transport could lead to a ⬇️ in transport-related disease & injury. Also, for non 🐴 folks, ‘unbroken’ 🐴 are more at risk than ‘broken’ ones. Because 🐴 people historically call the 🐴s we’ve trained ‘broke’🤷‍♀️ #quietpartoutloud www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11...
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Development and Validation of a Test for the Classification of Horses as Broken or Unbroken
Regulation EC 1/2005 has stricter rules for transportation of unbroken (untamed) vs. broken (tamed) horses, but does not provide adequate tools for their identification. This study aimed to develop an...
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
An opinion hill I am prepared to die on: Orange is the only appropriate flavour for chewable vitamin C tablets.
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🧪TL;DR Horses NEED social interactions to thrive. New research from Flamand et al showed that even one hour/day of free social interaction improved the behaviour of stalled horses: fewer stereotyped behaviour, less time in hypervigilance, more optimistic bias scholar.google.ca/scholar?as_y...
A lone pony stands in a sunny but frosty paddock. Green, sunlight evergreen trees can be seen behind him, out of focus. Two green metal fence rails are in front of the pony, one in front of his chest and the other crossing just below his eyes. He has a black mane and forelock, and a large white shield shaped marking on his forehead, connected to a thin white strip that extends to his nose, ending in a vaguely suggestively shape. One of the pony’s ears is pricked, facing the camera person, while the other is swiveled and orientated to the aide: perhaps to horses off camera?
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🧪 Despite what Hollywood says, blindfolding a horse to get them out of a burning building may take longer & require more lead rope pressure than not using one. But it may make it easier to help navigate a horse past visually 😱stimuli if training isn’t an option www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The full head of a palomino horse is framed in the shot. Behind the horse is blurry scenery: a small natural body of water, shrubs, and deciduous trees without foliage. The horse is wearing a pale blue halter, with a leadrope attached. He stares off camera, looking alertly at something in the distance. His eye shows slight triangular shaped wrinkles, indicating he may be feeling mild stress.
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🧪When not starting fights in the scientific community about correct pronunciation, vibrissae are much more than useless ’whiskers’ on a horse: sensory organs linked to specific 🧠 regions. Removing them compromises a horse’s ability to safely navigate their environment. madbarn.ca/whisker-trim...
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
When horses do invisible skipping rope triple unders #nichepost
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🧪Ooh, alert! Recent research looking at how a friendly (& long) maternal presence promotes maturation of brain territories involved in both social behaviour & physiological regulation IN HORSES, MY FRIENDS! Another paper to support rethinking premature weaning of 🐴. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The horse, the myth, the Yellowmino legend: Calcite.
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
🧪Pain is an unpleasant experience, one from which horses are not exempt. Pain can cause horses to behave in ways people don’t like. Being able to recognize pain is a learnable skill. A new validated pain scale hopes to help with that. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pai...
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Frontiers | Development, refinement, and validation of an equine musculoskeletal pain scale
Musculoskeletal disease is a common cause of chronic pain that is often overlooked and inadequately treated, impacting the quality of life of humans and hors...
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
🧪Hot off the presses! A study by Torcivia and McDonnell showing a behavioural signature of gastric discomfort in horses: nuzzling, swatting, nipping and/or gazing at the abdomen, often associated with ingestion or anticipation thereof: www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...
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Behavioral Signature of Equine Gastric Discomfort? Preliminary Retrospective Clinical Observations
Gastric ulcer disease and other potentially painful gastric conditions are among the most common afflictions adversely affecting the welfare of domestic equids. A large percentage of affected animals ...
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
What a treat it was to sit down with applied ethologist & canine behaviour consultant Kim Brophey recently to record the latest episode of our pod. It was an edifying discussion about what our primary focus should be when assessing welfare of animals in training. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n...
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Kim Brophey: Rethink animal welfare & training
Podcast Episode · Not Another Dog and Pony Show · 2024-12-06 · 59m
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Screenshot of the moment the UFO tractor beam lifted my Calcite into the mothership. #horsebehaviour
Palomino horse in outdoor arena leaps playfully into the air while grey horse bucks nearby.
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Lauren Fraser @lauren-fraser.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Many ethograms for horses are photos showing specific behaviours. While great for some behaviours, such ethograms aren't great for conveying movement & context clues needed for classifying other behaviours. A new video ethogram aims to help with that: www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14...
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Video Ethogram of Equine Social Behaviour
Equine social behaviour studies face challenges stemming from the absence of a comprehensive ethogram with unequivocal standardised definitions and the resulting limits to data comparison across studi...
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