Horses Charm

Though the golden era of horses may be in the past, they are still widely admired for being highly sensitive, intelligent and elegant animals. These hoofed creatures are credited to playing a crucial rule in the history of man.
Numerous studies have been performed for identifying the advanced senses of horses including vision, smell, hearing and tasting that is quite superior to those of man. Worth mentioning about horses vision ability is that they have something that resembles Red-green color blindness for humans that make the horse see red and related colors appear more green. In spite of that horses have a great sense of taste that helps them in determining the best kind of food and in avoiding eating poisonous food. As prey animals, their smell and hearing senses are highly advanced, but their hearing is much stronger than smell. Additionally, horses have an excellent proproctive ability that enable them of being aware of the state of body and limbs all the time. Horses react directly if any human or insect touched its skin especially in the areas around the eyes and the ear.
About horses Intelligence and learning skills, many recent studies prove that they excel other mammals in their abstract thinking abilities. They succeed in learning from both positive and passive reinforcement. Moreover, researchers assure that horses learn faster when using constant techniques are used for training with them. Most of the trainers assure that the relation between the horse and the trainer helps the horse in learning faster and also that domestic horses find lesser difficulties in gaining such skills.