Horse Sense

Welsh ponies. Heather Smithers, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Horses share a close relationship with humans in their daily lives. Domesticated over 5,500 years ago, they, like dogs, are attentive to humans and their behavior. Moreover, they are very social animals, living in large, stable groups in the wild. Thus, one would expect horses to have developed sophisticated social abilities to cope with the complex relationships they can form. Researchers recently put these abilities to the test.

Read about horses’ social sense at my Animal Minds blog: The Social Smarts of Horses.