{"id":6894,"date":"2016-02-11T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:39:15","slug":"horses-can-read-human-facial-expressions-says-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/equinews\/horses-can-read-human-facial-expressions-says-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses can read human facial expressions, says new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horses can read human facial expressions, according to new research. For the first time, it has been found that horses are able to distinguish between angry and happy faces.<\/p>\n<p>Psychologists at the\u00a0<span id=\"itxthook0p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook0w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">University<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of Sussex studied how 28 horses reacted to photographs of positive and negative human facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/horses-can-read-human-facial-expressions-says-new-research-a6863346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research concluded that the response suggested the horses had a functional understanding of the angry faces they were seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","tag-horse-human-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}