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16:11 Sep 10, 2017 |
Polish to English translations [PRO] Livestock / Animal Husbandry | |||||||
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3 | matriarch mare of the herd |
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2 | bellwether |
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2 | lead / alpha mare |
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bellwether Explanation: Termin wywodzi się od owiec, ale obecnie używany jest bardzo szeroko i przenośnie. A bellwether is one that leads or indicates trends; a trendsetter. This is an inversion of the original meaning as the bellwether, because of his emasculated condition, always stuck close to, usually following, the flock; his bell alerted the shepherd to its location. So originally the term referred to a reliable follower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether (...) a leader, esp. of a sheeplike crowd https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bellwet... |
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lead / alpha mare Explanation: . -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2017-09-10 19:56:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- można dołożyć trzeci termin - "head mare" ------ The harem group has a clear hierarchy in which the stallion and head mare are the two most central individuals in a very literal sense. The head mare is often referred to as the lead mare, but this can easily lead to some confusion about her actual role. An easy way of thinking about the head mare is as the ‘general’ of the group. Her place is at the centre of the group, where she is protected by a screen of lower status mares. She is the single most important member, and the group’s primary decision maker. Head mares are ‘elected’ to their position by group consensus. The position cannot be captured by aggressive behavior, nor can it be maintained by tyranny. So while the head mare is certainly the highest status female in the group, and is in many ways far more important to their survival than is the stallion, there is no need for her to physically dominate other mares and it would be a betrayal of her freely accorded status were she to do so. Lower status mares may improve their standing by achieving an alliance with the head mare – a win-win element of equine female social politics. - https://www.equine-behavior.com/Dominance_and_the_horse1.htm |
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matriarch mare of the herd Explanation: Leadership of a herd is typically a matriarch mare (female horse). https://honormedina.com/why-horses/ cccccccc Wild horses are led by a matriarch mare that the herd chooses to follow. They don't select her for her size, age, color or other physical. https://www.facebook.com/JoyOfJasper/posts/196110420525687 ccccccccc The big sorrel mare was the matriarch of the herd. Being the matriarch meant that she made all of the dayto-day decisions for this particular group of horses. https://books.google.com/books?id=GwzUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=P... cccccccccccccccccccccccc Wild Horses have a hierarchy similar to that of a wolf pack. With a stallion and matriarch mare running a band of wild/feral horses they live by their own rules for . http://tracyanebrooks.com/?page_id=146 cccccccccccccccccc Matriarch mares, for instance, assert their dominance by either forcing or inhibiting movement, Miller said, which allows a human to step in as a http://www.thehorse.com/articles/28836/the-equine-mind-top-1... |
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