Study shows horses learn better when they are more relaxed

The more relaxed horses are, the better they can learn new tasks, a study has found, “tentatively demonstrating that arousal has critical importance for learning”. Scientists at Nottingham Trent University looked into how level of arousal in horses – the extent to which they might be excited or stressed for instance – affected performance in […]

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