[Ag-eq] re Study indicates horses ask humans for help

[Jewel]

I forwarded the horse article to my sister, and this is her reply.

      Jewel


From: Gayle Blanch 
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 5:14 PM
To: Jewel 
Subject: Re: From Jewel: Fw: [Ag-eq] Study indicates horses ask humans for help


Rafferty was a good communicator. 

Would come over if I was in the paddock chopping thistles etc and position himself in my way -sideways and rock back and forth until I obliged with a scratch.  If I put my hand in the air at wither height he did all  the work while I  just kept them firm. It was funny to watch. After a while all I had to do was raise a hand and open and close a couple of times and he'd come a running.




When Lady fell in the ditch the other horse came up to the fence and called out several times and ran around. It was so out of character it made me go and look and found the poor old girl on her side in wintry cold water. At 24 she didn't have the strength to get herself out and ultimately it was her demise after we did get her out.










 




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From: Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2016 10:43 p.m.
To: gwila47 at hotmail.com
Subject: From Jewel: Fw: [Ag-eq] Study indicates horses ask humans for help 

        Perhaps your days as an equestrian are in the past, but I thought that you might be 
interested in this small article.

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From: "Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 2:06 AM
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
Subject: [Ag-eq] Study indicates horses ask humans for help

Thought horse people might find this interesting.

Tracy





A new study published last month in the journal of Animal Cognition suggests
that horses can and do ask their human caretakers for help when they need -
or want - it.

The research study, conducted at Kobe University with the assistance of the
school's equestrian club, sought to discover if a horse will communicate the
need for assistance to a human if they cannot perform a desired task on
their own.

The experiment consisted of carrots being placed in a bucket in front of,
but out of reach of a horse. When their human caretaker arrived, the horses
were observed as encouraging their caretaker to notice the bucket through
gestures, looking at them and at the bucket, touching them and even pushing
them with their muzzle. For some scenarios, the caretakers were present when
the carrots were placed in the bucket and for others they were not. The
horses seemed to send more signals to encourage their caretaker to notice
the bucket if the caretaker was not present when the carrots were placed in
the bucket.


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While the sample size of this experiment was small, findings suggest that
horses do indeed attempt to communicate with humans when they need
assistance with a task or situation they cannot complete/resolve on their
own, and that they alter their behavior according to how much they perceive
the human knows/understands the situation.

Read more at Horse Channel
<http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-news/2016/12/how-horses-ask-for-help.aspx
> .

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