Many people instinctively use baby-talk when talking to their pets, often characterized by a high-pitched voice and exaggerated intonations. The same is true for many riders with their horses. But are ...

In the movie The Horse Whisperer, the mere sight of Robert Redford squatting thoughtfully in a meadow was enough to get a problem horse to shed its bad habits. Stanford Addison gets horses to shed ...

When horses heard a familiar person's voice from a loudspeaker they preferentially looked at that person versus a stranger. Amy Kraft reports “Say Wilbur, get a load of this story.” If you grew up in ...