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The researchers plan to continue investigating horses’ abilities to detect sadness, particularly whether they can detect sadness amongst other negative emotions.
Researcher: "DO YOU EVEN CARE THAT I'M HURTING!?"
Horse:
among other negative emotions
"You dumb horse! You're a pile of manure and I hate you!"
Horse becomes aroused
Horses always seem to me like big dogs, they have such distinct personalities, and I've seen them do all sorts of funny things (seemingly just for the hell of it).
I’m not surprised by this at all. Every domesticated animal I’ve ever met has the sensitivity to discern human emotions. I always considered it part of the prerequisites for domestication.
What about chickens?
Yeah that’s a good example. Never met a chicken like that
Why do you eat them then?
I do not eat horses
My question: does this say more about the sensitivity of horse perception, or the intensity of human expression?
Could be neither, and that learning to read the other's emotions is helpful for domestication. Humans can read horse, much like Horses can read human.
I don’t know which aspect is stronger for certain but emotions are a very base thing. Humans can definitely intellectualize our emotions way more and create a lot of emotional nuance that way. But it seems reasonable that pure emotional intensity, and probably sometimes emotional perception (with less nuance) as well, could be stronger in some other highly social animals.
I think this has a lot to do with the horses we have bred.