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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
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