Horses
were able to convey their preference for blanket-wearing in a study conducted
in Norway. The researchers reported in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science that they successfully trained all
23 horses used in the study to convey their choice by pointing to symbols. The
horse used were of various ages and breeds. They were able to signal whether
they wanted their blanket put on, taken off, or left unchanged. All the horses
were performing well in the experiment following two weeks of training. The
study team, comprising Cecilie Mejdell, Turid Buvik, Grete Jørgensen and Knut
Bøe, described how they taught the horses to communicate by touching one of
three different visual symbols on white painted wooden display boards to tell
the handler their blanketing preference. Sept.22
Horses seem to capture our imagination and are a symbol of
strength and freedom but till now they have been generally thought to be dumb
and unable to communicate. The new study in Norway indicates otherwise.
The Moon entered its Last Quarter Phase on September 23,
just a day after the news of this study broke. Notice that a chart for the Moon
phase at Oslo, the location of the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, where the
research was carried out has a prominent Mercury-Saturn-Neptune T-square
straddling the meridian.
Mercury-Saturn-Neptune:
The dissolution (Neptune) of language (Mercury) barriers (Saturn).
Here Saturn is in Sagittarius – the sign linked to horses
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