In a new study published in Applied Animal Behaviour, a research team from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences describe a new technique in which horses are taught to communicate by touching ...

A team of researchers at Norwegian University of Life Sciences has found that horses are capable of reading symbols on a sign and using them to convey a desire—whether they want a blanket put on them ...

This paper describes a method in which horses learn to communicate by touching different neutral visual symbols, in order to tell the handler whether they want to have a blanket on or not. Horses were ...