We have to go back to long before the age of oil: transport was essentially horse-drawn, animal traction was vital for agriculture, and horses had to be fast and efficient. It was, and still is, a priority to feed horses properly to keep them healthy, hardy and with plenty of energy to spare. With the […]
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Trained horses
Can a horse learn to read and count? Can another consciously pick up a hat at the request of its rider? In the 17th century, Delcampe write about Mauraco and his horseman Pietro who were burned in a public square as a result of such a demonstration. Two centuries later, another horse called public attention […]
Screams and neighs
In the cinema, as soon as a horse enters the scene, its appearance is usually accompanied by a stereotypical neigh. However, as a prey animal, it does not neigh as much as the cinema would have us believe. If we humans have developed a communication made up of 80% verbal elements and 20% gestures, the […]