Horses use their ears to communicate with stablemates

We already know that body language is important for people, but now it turns out that horses can also pick up on visual clues.

Horses use their ears to communicate with stablemates

They pay attention to each others’ ears to work out just what’s going on in their stablemate’s head.

To find out which visual clues horses responded to, mammal communication experts Jennifer Wathan and Professor Karen McComb, from the University of Sussex, set up an experiment where horses had to choose where to feed.

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