HOW DO HORSES PERCEIVE DEATH?
A sad event provided researchers in Portugal with a rare opportunity to observe how feral horses react to the death of a herd mate and to collect data that may advance understanding of emotions and intelligence in all horses.
Scientists from the University of Coimbra in Portugal and Kyoto University in Japan were doing routine fieldwork, observing a feral herd, when they noticed a 2-month-old foal whose hind legs had been severely injured in a presumed wolf attack.
“We started to work with this horse population in the north of Portugal in 2016,” says Renata Mendonça, PhD. “Every year
