{"id":2655,"date":"2014-08-04T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:54:56","slug":"the-eyes-and-the-ears-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-eyes-and-the-ears-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The eyes (and the ears) have it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2637\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2637\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2637\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"Researcher Jennifer Wathan poses with one of the horses used in the experiment. A new study shows that horses rely on both the eyes and ears of fellow horses to understand where their attention is directed. (Photo credit: Karen McComb)\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unnamed.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unnamed-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researcher Jennifer Wathan poses with one of the horses used in the experiment. A new study shows that horses rely on both the eyes and ears of fellow horses to understand where their attention is directed. (Photo credit: Karen McComb)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows that horses rely on both the eyes and the ears of fellow horses in order to understand where their attention is directed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Horses were presented with a life-sized photograph of a horse that was pointing toward one of two buckets full of food. They tended to choose the bucket toward which the other horse was pointing, but when that horse\u2019s eyes or ears were covered, they chose the bucket at random. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While riders have long known that horses use their ears to communicate, this is the first evidence of how it\u2019s used in horse-to-horse communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Videos available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(14)00739-8\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Current Biology<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 4, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jennifer Wathan, University of Sussex<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that horses rely on both the eyes and the ears of fellow horses in order to understand where their attention is directed. Horses were presented with a life-sized photograph of a horse that was pointing toward one of two buckets full of food. They tended to choose the bucket toward which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,1531],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-communication"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/unnamed.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-GP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}