On 06/11/2017 14:23, whisky-dave wrote:
On Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:01:05 UTC, wrote:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 15:55:56 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
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.

But did they actually distinguish the shapes or just learn to press the left sign for blanket and the right sign for no blanket?

Owain

They recognised the picture of the horse with or without the blanket
according to the person that ran the experiment, who was interviewd on This Week in Science.


Any idea when that was? The only thing I can find on www.twis.org [1] is
about the Norwegian study I mentioned which used symbols.

[1] http://www.twis.org/2016/09/29/2018/

"Horses could indicate whether they wanted a blanket put on or removed
by using symbols provided to them by their trainers. It would appear the
mammalian brain was set up pretty well before we came along!"

with a link to
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-horses-...e-blanket.html




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