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him a treat. The carrot’s taste? Like sweet victory.
Key to understanding the natural behavior patterns of horses and how they sense the world is recognizing the differences — and similarities — in their senses, compared to ours. The horse is a strong and powerful animal, capable of great speed and quick reactions. That instinctive ability to flee from danger guaranteed survival in the wild as the horse evolved from forest dwelling dwarf to full-sized performance and sport animal.
As they have for millions of years, horses monitor their surroundings through senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. As prey animals, their very survival depended on heightened senses, but by understanding the way a horse sees and hears the world, working with its nature rather than against it, a trainer
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The horse’s vision could hardly be more different than human: They see nearly 360 degrees, eyes set to the sides of the head. Their vision enables them
to ‘evade predators,’ but it requires empathetic
horsemanship to get top performance.
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