Horses can read human emotions

[kafee]

Apparently Scientists have shown that horses can read emotions in human faces, but we already knew that.

uk.news.yahoo.com/video/horses-read-human-emotions-study-165725105.html

I haven't been able to watch the video, my computer is too slow to be able to cope.

[portiabuzz]

Yes I've seen alot about this on Facebook. Apparently they used photos of people's faces?

[kafee]

Just managed to watch the video, it only took 5 minutes to load, even though it's only 1.17 minutes long. They fitted heart monitors to the horses and showed them happy and angry male human faces. Their heart rates rose when shown the angry face. They also stated that horses are calm if their handler is calm, but that's not new.

[portiabuzz]

Well yes we knew that already