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October 03, 2005
Testing Equine Intelligence
Scientists constantly debate regarding whether or not animals have emotions. Now, read on to find out more about how animals--specifically horses--learn and interact with the world.
To find out more about equine emotions and responses, researchers are studying everything from anecdotes about animals in love to brain systems and chemistry in order to understand how animals' brains are wired. Clearly, there's a lot we don't know about the equine brain. But Evelyn Hanggi of the Equine Research Foundation in Aptos, California, is working to understand how horses learn, and she's upsetting some commonly held misconceptions about equine intelligence at the same time.
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Posted by sue at October 3, 2005 09:28 AM
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Posted by: John Miller at February 18, 2006 12:26 PM