horses use visual and physical cues to ask humans for help when they are in trouble, study

When horses face unsolvable problems they use visual and tactile signals to get human attention and ask for help, a study by researchers from Kobe University, Japan. The study also suggests that horses modify More...

Horses can read human emotions

  Psychologists studied how 28 horses reacted to seeing photographs of positive versus negative human facial expressions. When viewing angry faces, horses looked more with their left eye, a behaviour More...

Why the long face? Horses and humans share facial expressions

  Like humans, horses are expressive. They use muscles underlying various facial features – including their nostrils, lips and eyes – to alter their facial expressions in a variety of social More...