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Horses can recognize individual humans and other horses [S 109] using simple auditory cues, such as a voice, or visual cues, like facial features. [ S 54 ] [ P 13 ] [ 71 ] [ 72 ] Experiments have shown that horses can discriminate between faces in photographs or films [ S 36 ] and associate these with real individuals. [ 71 ]
Borna disease, also known as sad horse disease, [1] is an infectious neurological syndrome [2] of warm-blooded animals, caused by Borna disease viruses 1 and 2 (BoDV-1/2). BoDV-1/2 are neurotropic viruses of the species Mammalian 1 orthobornavirus, and members of the Bornaviridae family within the Mononegavirales order.
Equine ethics is a field of ethical and philosophical inquiry focused on human interactions with horses. It seeks to examine and potentially reform practices that may be deemed unethical, encompassing various aspects such as breeding, care, usage (particularly in sports), and end-of-life considerations.
One method involves the horse wearing a collar-like device that stops a horse from arching and swelling its neck to suck in air. However, one of the only studies of the equipment showed that although wearing such a collar for 24 hours reduced cribbing in six of eight horses, once the collar was removed, cribbing returned to greater levels than ...
The size of a race horse and its natural instincts make it nearly impossible to survive serious injuries at the track, but many are trying to improve the odds. Why do race horses keep dying?
The horse stumbled on top of him and he died three days later on 2 July at the age of 62 due to a clavicular fracture rupturing his subclavian vessels. Roderick, king of the Visigoths (d. 712), drowned after falling from his horse while attempting to escape through a river, following his defeat by the Moors who then conquered the rest of ...
The disease has a similar cause to Hirschsprung's disease in humans. A mutation in the middle of the endothelin receptor type B ( EDNRB ) gene causes lethal white syndrome when homozygous . Carriers, which are heterozygous —that is, have one copy of the mutated allele , but themselves are healthy—can now be reliably identified with a DNA test .
Wobbler disease or wobbler's syndrome is a broad category of cervical disorders in the horse, including the conditions listed above, as well as equine wobbles anemia and cervical vertebral myelopathy, spinal cord compression (sometimes referred to colloquially among horse owners as "cervical arthritis" due to the arthritis that accumulates in facets).