Friday 4 December 2015

  Horses are Conscious 



Horses have been tamed for a long time now approximately 5,000 years now.however humans are still learning how horses think.




Horses have been tamed for over 5,000 years ago and have been deeply associated with human from that point forward. In the book The Horse: The Epic History Of Our Noble Companion, Wendy Williams the author explores and explain the ancient relation between both horses and human, from the Chavey artistic cave painting to the Eurasian steppes, and the American farms of the West to a laboratory in Texas where behavioral researchers are piping hoe deep both horses awareness as well as consciousness.  Wendy clarifies why humans rethinking their previously established inclinations about animal awareness; she used Hans the horse as an example. Clever Hans as his Wendy referred to him in her book is a horse that worked very closely to his owner, his owner believed that Hans was gifted and can actually do math. Hans soon became very famous and everyone was talking about him, but people were very doubtful which lead to more test. When Hans Trainer would ask him a question he would get the answer right as well as if someone else asked him the question. One day one of the audience watching came up with the idea that they should has Hans the questions but hiding behind a barrier, that’s when Hans got the wrong answer. it turned out that he was watching the person and unconsciously the person gave Hans back subtle clues that told Hans when he reached the right answer. In other words, if the question was 10 minus 5 the answer would be 5, he would tap his feet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It turned out that the other person unconsciously gave Hans the clue that he reached the right answer maybe by slightly leaning over or seems to be excited. So, it turned out that Hans was reading clue which still make Hans a very smart horse. Eventually people started thinking that Hans isn’t as smart as they thought he was. 
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