The bond between humans and horses dates back thousands of years, and horses occupy a unique position in human life, falling somewhere between working animals and companion animals. Humans have long ...

Every year, snakebites kill tens of thousands of people worldwide. The reason many survive is antivenom and horses play a central role in making it. By carefully exposing horses to small amounts of ...

Frontal-facing eyes are a hallmark of predator species. Source: Nesrin Ozturk/Pexels One of the most controversial aspects of my work exploring the relationship between horse and human brains is the ...

The bond between horses and humans goes back a long way: the animals have played a central role in our species' expansion around the globe, as well as their long and storied use in warfare – even as ...

Horses can detect fear in humans by smell, becoming more likely to startle and more wary of people who are scared, a new study has found. Researchers collected samples of odor compounds from the ...

New research shows that horses can be just as meaningful objects of affection for humans as other pets or close human beings. The way people get attached to their horse can now also be reliably ...

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