Equilibre - Ethology and Horsemanship

The world's smallest rhinoceros, the Sabah rhino, is very close to extinction. The following release and images from Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB)

How much information does a horse convey when it whinnies? Plenty, according to a new study that will be in next month's issue of Animal Cognition. (Image: Mikel Ortega and Richard Bartz) Researcher Alban Lemasson of the University of Rennes...

Learn all you wanted to know about Przewalski's horses with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.

All horses can be trained to disregard the monsters lurking behind flower pots along the dressage arena. It's simply a matter of science, explains Danish ethologist Janne Winther-Christensen, Ph.D.

A treat is not simply a treat. A Japanese study has shown that horses - like dogs and humans - will work harder for a more desirable reward.

When a horse sees his best buddy grooming or playing with another horse, there's a good chance he might try to interrupt the session - even if the interruption holds no obvious, immediatereward. ...

There is something rotten in the State of Denmark. Actually, things are bad across Europe. Competition horses are trained by methods which compromise their welfare and endanger their riders.

A whip is a whip. Is it not? In fact, there are at least two pathways of learning which make the whip effective. One is negative reinforcement, the other is positive punishment, and the latter has recently become subject to an unprecedented ban by the Danish Equestrian Federation.

It is a training technique based on communication, both mental and physical, that develops a partnership between the horse and human.

People on the steppes of what is now Kazakhstan were the first to domesticate horses and even used them for milk, new evidence suggests.