{"id":4492,"date":"2014-08-05T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2014-08-05T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:28:19","slug":"i-am-sure-this-was-known-about-for-donkeys-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/08\/05\/i-am-sure-this-was-known-about-for-donkeys-years\/","title":{"rendered":"I am sure this was known about for donkey&#039;s years"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publicdomainpictures.net\/pictures\/40000\/velka\/pinto-horse-in-pasture.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\"> Researchers at the University of Sussex have published their research on how horses communicate [1]. It seems that they use their swiveling ears to aid in communication.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Talking to someone who is not a scientist, but has lots of experience of working with horses, said that the horse riding community knew this already. However, a scientific study was needed as anecdotal evidence is  not enough.<\/p>\n<p>That said,  this was known about for <em>donkey&#8217;s years*<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>*Non-native speakers  may find this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/donkey%27s_years\" title=\"wiki\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> useful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/28583944\" title=\"BBC News\" target=\"_blank\">Horses&#8217; mobile ears are &#8216;communication tool&#8217; <\/a> BBC News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference <\/strong><br \/>\nJennifer Wathan  &amp; Karen McComb, The eyes and ears are visual indicators of attention in domestic horses, <em>Current Biology <\/em>, Volume 24, Issue 15, 4 August 2014, Pages R677\u2013R679.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Sussex have published their research on how horses communicate [1]. It seems that they use their swiveling ears to aid in communication. Talking to someone who is not a scientist, but has lots of experience of working with horses, said that the horse riding community knew this already. However, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/08\/05\/i-am-sure-this-was-known-about-for-donkeys-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am sure this was known about for donkey&#039;s years<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}