Study reveals that horses understand the mood of people – Clarín.com

The next time you look at a horse’s eyes watching how you do because now you know that the animal understands you.

Many professionals and horse lovers are well aware for years that these animals they are, among other things, intelligent and sociable but now a scientific study seems to show that also know how to interpret the emotions of the people before their eyes

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This new observation is the result of a series of experiments conducted with 28 horses of various stables UK experts University of Sussex. The conclusions of this work have been published in the journal Biology Letters.

How eyebrows move to a threat

One of the things that have know now is that when horses feel threatened or surprised raise their eyebrows, as many humans-do. Some studies indicated that this species have been observed up to 17 different emotions in the position of the eyes and eyebrows equine.

The study now publishes trying to prove that horses also react differently when they see the face of an angry or smiling person. To do this, they showed animals pictures of people with different expressions and observed their facial reactions and heart rate

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One of the results of the experiment was that when the horses looked the face of an angry person rapidly accelerating your heart rate and also turned their face -of horse to better see the picture with the left eye, a reaction that is associated with understanding the meaning of anger on the part of the person.

a shared skill with dogs

According to the study authors remind the part of the brain that transmits information left eye (ie, the right hemisphere) specializes in the processing of negative emotions.

also according to the authors, this bias on the look (using the left eye to negative situations) had already been observed in dogs and can be considered a sign that these two species are able to interpret the mood of . those who have before them

Source: La Vanguardia