This Return to Freedom webinar featured wild horse researcher Dr. Sarah King.

About the webinar

King provides an insight into recent research on wild horse behavior. She discusses how they spend their time, and the intricacies of their social life and choice of reproductive partners. Return to Freedom’s Informed Advocacy Webinar Series covers information needed to make good change for America’s wild horses and burros.

About the speaker

King is a faculty member and research scientist at Colorado State University. She is co-chair of the International Union of the Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Equid Specialist Group, working to conserve endangered equids around the world. She collaborated with the U.S. Geological Survey to lead research on the behavior, ecology, and demography of horses and burros in the American West. Her work focuses on how the behavioral ecology of mammals can inform their management and conservation.

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