We snuggle up to our cats on rainy days and fall on our knees when our dogs greet us at the door. Pets have become emotional touchstones for many, supplying the unconditional love and affection that ...
Both emphasized communication with their horses, and Kim talked to her horses, even as she was riding them, Datz said. "It was not rigid technique. There was a lot of flexibility in what they did," ...
Papers resulting from a conference entitled Conference on the Clever Hans phenomenon: Communication with Horses, Whales, Apes, and People held by the New York Academy of Sciences, May 6-7, 1980.
A horse’s whinny is an iconic sound, arguably on par with a cow’s moo and a sheep’s baa and a donkey’s hee-haw. Most people ...
Three quarter horses danced around a ring, nipping each other in the butt, chasing and kicking one another, and loudly munching grass and the leaves of a nearby willow tree. Though they didn’t know it ...
The East Flemish horse trainer Mieke Lannoo has taught her horse Happy to understand 12 signs from the SMOG (Speaking with Gesture Support) sign language system. SMOG is composed of simplified signs ...