Horses can become your lifelong friend. (Photo: Internet).
Behavior Carroll Sankey and his colleagues at Rennes University (France) chose 20 Anglo-Arabian horses and 3 French horses as subjects to examine their knowledge and memory of their orders. Research serves the purpose of training horses for a short time.
The training program is delivered to a female ' teacher ', incorporating the basic curriculum with medical care and taking into account their psychology, including 41 steps. For example, when the horse hears the command ' Order! 'they must stand still and remain silent. When veterinarians give them a temperature, they must know how to coordinate the physician to work for convenience.
If any horse correctly executes those commands, then he will be rewarded by the ' teacher '. After receiving the favorite rewards, the horse expressed his love by gestures such as sniffing and licking teachers. That behavior is not because he wants to eat more but merely to show his love for the teacher.
Eight months after the course ended, when these horses met again who had taught, trained for themselves, they seemed happy and entwined. Those who had previously had good relationships with their old teachers often did not resist new coaches (although the nature of horses is stubborn to strangers). It shows that it is possible to create good impressions and feelings for horses who really love them.
The research results show that as well as in people if creating a happy state and good relationship with them, the training is easy and the memorization of their commands is better. Horse trainers said: ' When horses are frustrated, unhappy, it is difficult to teach them, they are not obedient and 4 to 6 times less able to memorize '.
They also said that horses can understand human language more than we thought. Their memory is quite good. They remember the human face after being distant from each other for a long time and remember the command to go home for 10 years or longer.
Sankey's behavioralist concludes that the " social relations " of horses are maintained for a long time, sometimes for life.