{"id":903,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/horses-are-cleverer-than-many-suspect\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:54","slug":"horses-are-cleverer-than-many-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/horses-are-cleverer-than-many-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses are cleverer than many suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-12 12:00:44<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Horses are a lot smarter than previously suspected.<BR><br \/>\nNew research has shown that the animals performed much better than expected in a reward-based game as they were able to switch strategies and earn rewards when denied treats for not following the rules.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at Nottingham Trent University say this demonstrates that horses can think and plan ahead &#8211; something that was previously considered to be beyond their skillset.<BR><br \/>\nKnowing how horses learn could help carers to train the beasts more humanely and improve their welfare, the researchers say.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Carrie Ijichi, a senior lecturer in equine science at the university, said: &#8220;Horses are not natural geniuses, they are thought of as mediocre, but this study shows they&#8217;re not average and are, in fact, more cognitively advanced than we give them credit for.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-12 12:00:44 Horses are a lot smarter than previously suspected. New research has shown that the animals performed much better than expected in a reward-based game as they were able&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}