Horses Can Read Emotions
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scientists showed horses photographs of human faces, and
they discovered that horses can (24)
between angry and happy faces and
react (25)
The scientists (26)
angry faces cause their heart rates to rise a lot.
the horses with heart monitors which revealed that
Riders from a club in London also say that there is a special relationship between
humans and horses. If you approach a horse and you are happy and relaxed, then
the horse will be relaxed, too. They added that horses make people (27)
of
their own emotions because they react to them.
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British psychologists have found that horses can not only recognize an emotion on a person’s face, but also remember it. As the authors write in Current Biology, when horses encounter the same person a second time, their reaction depends on whether the person they saw was happy or angry.
Some animals, including dogs, chimpanzees, crows, and even giant pandas, can recognize human emotions in photographs (1, 2, 3, 4). The crows were even able to remember people who posed a threat to them - they wore exaggeratedly evil masks and tried to trap them. But until now it was unknown whether animals could recognize subtle emotions in people's faces and remember them.
To find out, psychologists from the University of Sussex, led by Karen McComb, conducted an experiment involving 48 horses, which were divided into experimental and control groups. Each horse in the experimental group was shown a photograph of one of two female experimenters with a happy or angry expression on her face. After 3-6 hours, the same girl entered the stall, maintaining a neutral expression on her face. It is worth noting that the researcher did not know which photograph the horses were shown and could not unconsciously change their facial expression. Animals from the control group were first shown a photograph of an angry or smiling face, but after a while another girl entered the stall. During the tests, the horse's pulse was measured and its behavior was monitored: whether it avoided the experimenter or, on the contrary, approached him, whether signs of stress were noticeable (the animal had increased muscle tone, it flared its nostrils, chewed with its lips, sniffed or licked the floor).