Does Your Horse Recognise You?

Does your horse recognise you? Does he behave differently with you then with other people and strangers?  Maybe he always acts a certain way with you and differently with another person who also handles him?

Recented studies indicate that horses use auditory and visual information to recognise specific people, and that they expect certain behaviors from those people based on previous experience.

"We wanted to understand how horses perceive humans and which of our characteristics and behaviors are relevant to them," said Carol Sankey, MSc, PhD (ethology) and lead author on the study.

CLICK HERE to read the full Study, "Do Horses Have a Concept of Person?" which was published in the open access Public Library of Science Journal.