title: Aggressive behavior problems.
abstract: Accurate diagnosis of the cause of aggression in horses is essential to determining the appropriate course of action. The affective forms of aggression include fear-induced, pain-induced, intermale, dominance, protective, maternal, learned, and redirected aggressions. Non-affective aggression includes play and sex-related forms. Irritable aggression and hypertestosteronism in mares are medical problems, whereas genetic factors, brain dysfunction, and self-mutilation are also concerns.
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D005239:Fear; D006736:Horses; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012931:Social Environment