Father-daughter matings and its avoidance in Misaki feral horses
1996
Kaseda, Y. (Miyazaki Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture) | Nozawa, K.
Father-daughter matings and its avoidance mechanism were analyzed on the basis of data which gained from behavioral observations and paternity tests in Misaki feral horses from 1979 to 1994. Twelve stallions and their 51 daughters had 176 breeding seasons, but they live in the different home range in 82 breeding seasons. About half of 1 to 3-year-old mares emigrated from natal area to the other and grew up there, emigrations of young mares may result reduction of contacts and avoidance of inbreeding with their fathers. The stallions and their daughters lived in the same area in 94 breeding seasons, but there were no cases that daughters which left their natal harem groups before sexual maturity formed again stable consort relations with their natal harem stallions. It is possible that separation of young mares from their natal groups before sexual maturity may result avoidance of formation of consort relation with their fathers. Two father-daughter matings were observed in 124 paternity tests. These two daughters were born in the other harem groups than their father's and left their natal groups before maturity. After maturity, one of them formed a stable consort relation with her father and the other remained together with her father for 2 months in the breeding season. Both of them had not experience to have lived with their fathers before maturity. The present result supports the hypothesis in wild and semi-wild horses that inbreedings between fathers and daughters may be avoided by the experience to have lived together before sexual maturity
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