After collecting and analyzing five years' worth of data on the welfare of working equids in developing countries, researchers have identified some factors associated with potential welfare issues and means of intervening and improving the welfare of the most susceptible animals can now be devised. Since more than 85% of the world's equids (estimated at 94 million) live in developing countries

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