>Horses have joined a select group of animals that can communicate by pointing at symbols. >Scientists trained horses, by offering slices of carrot as an incentive, to touch a board with their muzzle to indicate if they wanted to wear a rug. >The horses' requests matched the weather, suggesting it wasn't a random choice. >A few other animals, including apes and dolphins, appear, like us, to express preferences by pointing at things. >Dr Cecilie Mejdell of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, who led the research, said they wanted to find a way to ask the horse whether or not it liked wearing a blanket. >In Nordic countries, it is common for horses to wear a blanket in all weathers. >"I think our study adds to the knowledge on horse cognition - about what horses are able to learn and how they think," she told BBC News. >"Horses are often considered to be not very intelligent but this shows that using the right methods they can actually communicate and express their opinions and they can take choices that seem sensible to us even."
you will get horse lives matter activists protesting horse racing and glue.
Hunter Cook
>implying /mlp/ doesn't already have a thread about horses being able to give positive consent
Luis Russell
What is "pavlov"
Nathaniel Scott
>This board is for the discussion of news, world events, political issues, and other related topics.
It's news.
Gavin Nelson
Horse racing is pretty shit, desu.
Kayden Thomas
Degenerate Canadians eat horses as well as fuck them.
Both are legal in maple land.
Dominic Gray
>Scientists trained horses
Nope.
Benjamin Kelly
Great. Now them and the rapey dolphins can teach us proper gender role models.
Jacob Mitchell
The highest sign of intelligence in animals is being able to recognise themselves in a mirror. Horses cannot do this. It's a pretty small list. >Humans >Chimpanzees >Orangutans >Bonobos >Elephants >Dolphins >Orca >Magpies >Ants, oddly enough >There's some debate about Manta Rays
Dogs are supposedly highly intelligent yet fail to recognise their reflections. The main theory about this is just how much more they rely on their sense of smell than they do vision.
It's also unknown why gorillas fail at it.
Jace Russell
ants, huh? ants pretty much rule the world.
Alexander Hill
Not on the list: 18-72 month old Kenyan children.
Bentley King
>highest sign of intelligence Prove that statement
Juan Hall
I'm going to need you to intellectually unpack this idea.
Zachary Wilson
>implying /mlp/ gives a fuck about consent.
Aiden Ross
Guarantee Crows are apart of that class of animals.
Connor Brown
>not giving a fuck whether a horse consents or not You're gonna have a bad time.
Ian Howard
what if they invented a mirror that reflected smells as well as light
[After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his human observers. Pfungst discovered this artifact in the research methodology, wherein the horse was responding directly to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer, who had the faculties to solve each problem. The trainer was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues. In honour of Pfungst's study, the anomalous artifact has since been referred to as the Clever Hans effect and has continued to be important knowledge in the observer-expectancy effect and later studies in animal cognition.]
Charles Robinson
I am reminded of the Smell~O~Scope
Isaac Edwards
I see niggers didn't make the list.
Gavin Ross
>Horses can communicate with us
Horses confirmed smarter than women
Blake Nelson
Reminder to all anons to stay away from girls into horses should you ever come into contact with women.
Juan Butler
Someone who experimented with a completely different situation than this?
Nathan Nelson
Nothing that weighs a ton, walks on its toenails, shits on itself and gets scared of seemingly nothing is going to come anywhere close to sapience.
Horses are just freaky though, they're cute, but they get spooked by me and I do nothing to provoke them. I love animals, cats flock to me like I'm covered in food but horses and abused dogs hate me.
Owen Sanchez
"You don't own nothin goyim"
Hunter Davis
do...do...do they fuck the horse user? I as because an ex of mine did horse riding for like two years.
Jonathan Wood
according to the ruling by the supreme court of Canada, bestiality is only illegal when penetration is involved and does not extend to other acts of sexual activity
taking offers now for a minority stake in my animal oral sex and tribbing farm!
