Stallion Mate Choice and Mare Sexual Behaviour in a Herd of Sorraia Horses (Equus caballus)

Table 5

Influence of mare age, rank, and kinship on sexual behaviour patterns, as assessed by the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.

	Simultaneous oestrus frequency	Total oestrus frequency	Total success	Success in oestrus	Oestrus discrimination	Receptivity
2003	𝑁=8	𝑁=8	𝑁=9	𝑁=8	𝑁=8	𝑁=8
Age	0.69*	0.52	−0.16	−0.07	0.24	−0.33
Rank	0.69*	0.52	−0.12	−0.07	0.24	−0.33
Kinship	0.16	0.06	−0.03	−0.29	0.17	−0.51
2005	𝑁=9	𝑁=10	𝑁=10	𝑁=10	𝑁=10	𝑁=10
Age	0.23	0.26	−0.32	−0.33	−0.13	−0.09
Rank	0.38	0.39	−0.14	−0.14	−0.53	−0.17
Kinship	0.19	0.41	0.46	0.39	−0.30	0.33

* 𝑃<.05.