On Saturday, 4 November 2017 02:14:14 UTC, soup wrote:
On 03/11/2017 15:55, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 19:45:55 UTC, soup wrote:
On 02/11/2017 19:26, ARW wrote:

These are race horses - and race horses really are the devil of all
horses when it come to behaviour.

Horses are pretty stupid animals

They aren't studies have shown they are inteligent, one study where they usedsymbols of a horse with a blanket on it and symbols of a horse without a blanket in it.
Then they put blankets on those horses and showed them that sign and they did the same for no blanket on a hoser the horses worked out that if they wanted the blanket taken off because they were hot to hit the no blanket sign and visa versa. So thought the summer winter the horse were telliong the staff whether or not they wanted a blanket over them by hitting on the appropriate panel.

I have no doubt horses can be trained to do many things but they do
appear very stupid.

Appearing to be stupid doesn't mean much. I bet man appears pretty stupid to horse that have known whether they are hot or cold all along and man has been adding or removing things irrespective of what the horses have wanted.


I believe this comes from them being prey animals in that they react
THEN think of what they should do.

What do you mean by prey animals what animals hunt horses ?

They also seem to have no conception of what size they are or where
any part of them is hence forever leaning against people and standing on
their feet etc.

They seem to be able to jump pretty high and perhaps leaning aganst someone or standing on there feet is a sign of domination.
Horses can communicate danger amd other things to each other just by moving their ears humans can't.

http://www.equine-world.co.uk/about_...telligence.asp