Horses are smart enough to plan and strategise, new study shows

8 comments

1. Why is the news pushing the narrative that horses are smarter than the far right. Stop tiered horse breeding.

2. I love horses, best of all the animals.
   I love horses, they’re my friends

3. Makes sense, having grown up close to farms and being mildly physically disabled one knows that animals are super observant and careful so this isn’t a stretch.

4. Horses are the most brilliant animals I’ve known but they’re also daft as a brush when it comes to food. I’ve got a photo somewhere of a Shetland we used to have running around with a plastic garden chair on his head because he stuck himself through it eating grass, but he was also smart enough to open stable locks and often ended up in the field opposite us because he knew how to get through fences.

5. Yep, the horse in the field behind us makes a point of shitting and farting up wind of us when we’re in the garden. He’s a lovely chap

6. So I guess horse is off the menu now too? Good job the cows are still thick as mince.

7. Having watched 4 horses work together herding sheep in a field, yes

8. This study was undertaken by vetinary Behooforable scientists