{"id":7188,"date":"2016-10-03T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:55:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:55:22","slug":"horses-can-communicate-with-us-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horses-can-communicate-with-us-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses can communicate with us &#8211; scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists trained horses, by offering slices of carrot as an incentive, to touch a board with their muzzle to indicate if they wanted to wear a rug.<br \/>\nThe horses&#8217; requests matched the weather, suggesting it wasn&#8217;t a random choice.<\/p>\n<p>A few other animals, including apes and dolphins, appear, like us, to express preferences by pointing at things.<br \/>\nDr Cecilie Mejdell of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, who led the research, said they wanted to find a way to ask the horse whether or not it liked wearing a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>In Nordic countries, it is common for horses to wear a blanket in all weathers.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-37450952\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Cecilie Mejdell of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, who led the research, said they wanted to find a way to ask the horse whether or not it liked wearing a blanket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,14],"tags":[601,599,600],"class_list":["post-7188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-industry","tag-bbc-news","tag-dr-cecilie-mejdell","tag-norwegian-veterinary-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188","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=7188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7188\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}