Released February 11, 2009
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Every horse owner seeks to understand his or her equine partner and what makes it comfortable and willing to do its job, whether that job is competing in three-day eventing or meandering down quiet trails. To help horse enthusiasts better interpret equine behavior, My Horse University at Michigan State University is offering a three-part webcast series in March and April.
The series will be offered in partnership with Source Interlink Media's Equine Network and will offer participants the chance to learn from three leading equine behaviorists. The webcasts will coordinate with articles featured in the Equine Network magazines “EQUUS”, “Practical Horseman” and “Horse and Rider.”
Camie Heleski, instructor from the MSU Department of Animal Science, will head up the series March 18 with a webcast titled “Horse Behavior Categories.” On March 25, Katherine Houpt, James Law professor of animal behavior at Cornell University, will discuss “Understanding Horse Body Language,” and on April 1, Cindy McCall, professor of animal science at Auburn University, will present a talk titled “Managing Horse Behavior: Let Your Horse Be a Horse.”
“The horse behavior webcast series provides equine enthusiasts from all over the world a chance to sit in on a university-quality lecture and ask questions of three top equine behaviorists in the United States by way of the Web,” says Christine Skelly, director of curriculum for My Horse University.
“Providing the horse community with timely information and access to experts online helps our readers stay on top of the best science-based information,” says Susan Harding, vice president and group publishing director of the Equine Network.
Related articles on horse behavior will appear before the webcasts in the April issues of EQUUS (“Why Does My Horse Do That?”), Practical Horseman (“Equine Expressions”) and Horse and Rider (“Nature Meets Nurture”). The articles will be in each magazine’s special educational section and will also be available online at http://www.equisearch.com. The articles will highlight science-based information from internationally acclaimed equine scientists, including the webcast presenters.
The registration fee is $25 for each webcast or $50 for the entire series. To register, visit http://www.myhorseuniversity.com. All three webcasts will be archived for future viewing by registered participants. For more information, visit http://www.equisearch.com. My Horse University was created through a partnership between MSU Extension, the MSU Department of Animal Science and MSU Global. It has branched out to include the best of MSU’s equine researchers and practitioners and national experts through a partnership with national eXtension.
My Horse University provides customers with a premier learning experience through a flexible online computer format. It offers its customers science-based research in all of its courses and products. For more information, visit http://www.myhorseuniversity.com.
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Contacts: Christine Skelly, 810-338-8200
Karen Vignare, 517-455-7554
Laura Probyn, 517-432-1555, ext. 175
