{"id":5611,"date":"2012-05-22T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:15:45","slug":"horses-can-recognise-their-owners-from-their-voices-and-create-a-mental-picture-of-familiar-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horses-can-recognise-their-owners-from-their-voices-and-create-a-mental-picture-of-familiar-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses can recognise their owners from their voices and create a mental picture of familiar humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Horses really can recognise their owners by their voices, according to research showing how they generate a mental picture of familiar humans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When a familiar person&#8217;s voice is played from a hidden loudspeaker, horses look towards them more than to another individual they know, or a stranger.<br \/>\nScientists at the University of Sussex have previously revealed the animals also recognise members of their herd in this way, an ability known as &#8216;cross modal&#8217;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/9267707\/Horses-can-recognise-their-owners-from-their-voices-and-create-a-mental-picture-of-familiar-humans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a familiar person&#8217;s voice is played from a hidden loudspeaker, horses look towards them more than to another individual they know, or a stranger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1097],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","tag-university-of-sussex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8616,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}